Mireille Clavien - designer at

Virtual Human skeletton (HAnim)

deformation bones (BonesPro)

bones are used as well to fake facial animation.

One single texture per mesh
Applying UVs (for each Lod)

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exemple of texture variations to generate diversity.

Smooth color variety developped by Jonathan Maïm and Barbara Yersin - to increase human diversity by mixing colors onto specific zones of the textures.

1 template with 8 segmentationMaps

Crowd with smooth color variety: 6 templates, each template with 4-8 segmentationMaps and accessories.
Crowd engine developped by Jonathan Maïm and Barbara Yersin
Accessories designed by Renaud Krummenacher