--- title: From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman's Beryl is... description: YAMATOWORKS' 3D team shared behind-the-scenes lookdev work for the anime From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, revealing how they distorted character... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-old-country-bumpkin-to-master-swordsman-s-beryl-is-scary-in-3d-sxf2isudw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman's Beryl is Scary in 3D | daily.dev og:description: YAMATOWORKS' 3D team shared behind-the-scenes lookdev work for the anime From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, revealing how they distorted character... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-old-country-bumpkin-to-master-swordsman-s-beryl-is-scary-in-3d-sxf2isudw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sXf2ISuDw.png og:image:alt: From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman's Beryl is Scary in 3D og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman's Beryl is Scary in 3D **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 3 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary YAMATOWORKS' 3D team shared behind-the-scenes lookdev work for the anime From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, revealing how they distorted character Beryl's anatomy in LightWave 3D to nail a fierce facial expression for a 2D close-up during a sword fight scene. The exaggerated, awkward-looking 3D model was purely a means to an end, since the final 2D render reads as a convincingly intense expression. The piece draws parallels to similar exaggerated-anatomy tricks used in Encanto and other 3D productions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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