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Hirun Cryer

Still Wakes the Deep's creature movements were created by a "technical glitch," and they were so good it immediately "unnerved everyone"

Still Wakes the Deep.

The Chinese Room animated Still Wakes the Deep creature movements by complete accident thanks to a timely bug.

Speaking at Develop: Brighton 2024, Still Wakes the Deep creative director John McCormack, project technical director Louis Larsson-De Wet, and associate art director Laura Dodds explained how the creature's movements came to be. It turns out a completely accidental bug in a tech demo helped determine how the creature should move, as well as its overall design.

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