Score a game's combat skills and spells out of 10 with blind judges, then raise the weakest to a bar, for timing and readability (does a skill read as itself, does the blow land when it lands) and for art (detail, light, trails, impact, art direction, judged against a reference such as Diablo IV). Covers filming casts on a stopped, stepped clock, contact strips and close-ups, anonymised two-judge rounds, the levers that moved scores (hero props made from a painted concept with image-to-3D, own schedules and keyed moves, painted additive textures, camera-facing ribbons, light outside the body), the traps that cost points, asset and load budgets, and shipping each skill as …
