AnsweRED Podcast by CD PROJEKT RED

Recording mocap sessions at CDPR means learning how to swim on ropes, work with horses, and get used to wearing those strange sensor-covered suits. Just another normal day in the world of game development! The 29th episode of AnsweRED Podcast is live, and our hosts Paweł Burza, Senior Communication Manager, and Paweł Mielniczuk, Art Director of Project Hadar, invite you behind the scenes of motion capture reality. Together with our Producer, Paulina Lendzion, and Motion Capture Lead, Tomasz Kowalczyk, discover what really happens on a mocap stage.

You find a bug in the game and then what? In the 28th episode of AnsweRED Podcast, Narrative QA Lead Monika Rokita and Associate QA Director Piotr Tyszko share their perspective on QA — whether it’s only about finding bugs, how to adapt to a project’s various phases, whether the bloopers library is something real, and much more!

What happens when behavioral and cognitive psychology meet the game development process? In the 27th episode of AnsweRED Podcast, Joshua Marchand, our UX Research Lead and Dawid Zalewski, Research Operations Coordinator/Senior UX Researcher, dive deep into UX research processes and their role in bringing player feedback into development.

Game animation is where technology, design, and emotions meet. In Episode 26 of AnsweRED Podcast, Dominika Staniaszek and Maciej Pietras share their perspective on gameplay vs cinematic animation, open-world challenges, and the skills every great animator needs.

In the 25th episode of AnsweRED Podcast, together with Natalia Kosonowska, Senior Character Artist, and Marcin Klicki, Character Art Acting Lead, we discover the world of character and monster artists. If you’re interested in the monsters that defined The Witcher, how fashion can be used in worldbuilding, or the importance of creative responsibility and trust in game development, this is definitely something for you!