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The tweet shows digital researcher Wendy W. Fox at Avalanche’s New York offices, having her face scanned using photogrammetry cameras, for what she describes as ‘Mad Max 2’.
The photo was apparently taken before the pandemic but other than stating that her face would have been used for a ‘rebel’ character there’s no information on what the game is and whether it’s still in development.
It is possible she may have been mistaken about what game she was been scanned for, as Avalanche also worked on the Mad Max-esque Rage 2. However, that was released in May 2019 and so unless she’s underplaying how much earlier this was before the pandemic started, it doesn’t seem likely that it was that.
3D scanning technology was not used for the original Mad Max, in fact its poor quality character models were a notable flaw, so it does make sense that it would be something that Avalanche would want to improve in a sequel.
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