6 hours Ago By Mark Warren
Right, here we go. Remember that The Witcher 4 reveal trailer behind-the-scenes video CD Projekt put out the other day ? The one with mo-cap actions fighting some poles? Well, some people thought it featured shots showing Ciri's appearance has been changed compared to that first trailer. Now, the game's director has confirmed that it has not.
I'm not going to dwell on which kinds of accounts were asserting that the face had been changed, and for what reasons, because it's the exact kind of people you'd expect. You know, the kind who responded to the initial trailer by getting very angry about the idea that TW4 had a female protagonist , because of they just care about lore, they swear. Anyway, Witcher 4 director Sebastian Kalemba has stepped in to nip any chatter in the bud.
"The behind-the-scenes video features the same in-game model of Ciri as seen in the original trailer," he wrote, "We have not modified it. What you’re seeing is raw footage - without facial animation, lighting, or virtual camera lenses. "While it’s still in-engine, it represents a work-in-progress snapshot taken before we applied cinematic touches for the purpose of that video.
This variation is a natural part of the game development process. At this point, any character's appearance may vary depending on the medium — whether it’s in a trailer, a 3D model, or in-game." So, there you go.
Nothing to discourse about, not that it'll stop the main grifters from doing so, but hey, it's 2025 and we're all trapped here forever. Putting that aside, Kalemba's explanation's an interesting read if you're just curious about how studios can go about putting together pre-release stuff character-wise. In other recent CD Projekt-related news, a job listing for Cyberpunk 2077 's sequel recently hinted that the studio's potentially aiming to deliver "the most realistic and reactive crowd system in any game to date", even if reading into job descriptions rarely paints the full picture of what a game might actually end up like.
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