Roboto Terms

Question 1

CRAFT

Answer 1

Capture (ie. mocap)
Rigging 
Animation
Frameworks (ie. tools)
Team (ie. management)

Question 2

FAME

Answer 2

Facial Animation Modeling Environment. This is THE rig and pipeline

Question 3

TCL or The Capture Lab

Answer 3

Vancouver and LA-based motion capture facility

Question 4

Ghost

Answer 4

This is the game team in Guildford, UK. We mostly refer to them as “Game Team” or “Roboto” or “Roboto Team”

Question 5

Content or EASC (EA Studios Content)

Answer 5

CRAFT is part of this larger organization called content. There are hundreds of ‘central’ artists and animators etc… that work on various projects.

Question 6

ArtWorks

Answer 6

This is another team within EASC and who makes the characters with us

Question 7

Production Rigging

Answer 7

props and weights of the characters and really everything not face rigging.

Question 8

Tiburon

Answer 8

EA Studio in Orlando Florida. A few animators and a Technical Animator/Artist (TA) are here

Question 9

DICE or EALA

Answer 9

EA’s Los Angeles studio

Question 10

EAV

Answer 10

EA Vancouver

Question 11

EASH

Answer 11

EA Shanghai. They are actually doing a majority of the animation work

Question 12

Development Director

Answer 12

This is what EA pretty much calls the Producer role

Question 13

Frostbite or Frost or FB or FrostEd

Answer 13

This is the game engine on the game. Integration means getting the maya into frostbite. DCC (maya upstream?) ANT in frostbite