Character Studio

Character Studio is a basic prototype of the character-customisation feature for a High Fashion game: the step of the character creator where players shape the body before they style it. It runs from a link on a phone, with no install, so the feel of the feature can be tested before any engine work.

The two characters are fictional models sculpted with AI. The Golden Sea team then prepared them for real-time use: the raw sculpt is reduced from about 800k to 160k triangles while the chest keeps full density, a skeleton is added in Blender, and the texture is cleaned where skin tones had leaked onto hair or hair colour onto the body.

The customisation itself is a soft-body system the team developed for this prototype. The chest and hips are cut out as dynamic meshes and deformed every frame: a size scale around each region, a damped spring for the bounce, a squash-and-stretch spring for a softer feel, and a dent-and-bulge response to touch, all tuned by one softness slider. Hair lying over a region moves out with it, so the body never pokes through the strands.

Each build was checked with automated browser tests that tap, drag and move every slider on a phone-sized screen before release.