Put Yourself on the Pitch With Cranium Technology in EA SPORTS FC™ 25

Now you can easily craft a unique football player that represents you and flex your creativity in EA SPORTS FC 25 with Cranium Technology. The character creation screen is one of the most enchanting menus for any fan, especially when recreating yourself within the game.

• Cranium is a collection of technologies working together to give you precise control over many aspects of your character’s head model.
• Technologies for sculpting and textures combine to give you the power to design a character’s head model with the spirit of a creator.
• It’s more than just shaping as Cranium Technology allows your character’s face to animate and move naturally, dialing up immersion and realism.

Unleash your creativity and bring your football legend to life with details that stack up against real-life superstars.

Kick Off Your Character Creation With Detailed Customization

Cranium Technology is designed to empower you to create your diverse self, or a different personality altogether, and this commanding player creation tool debuts in EA SPORTS FC 25.

There are four pillars of technology that make up the Cranium package, each with their own innovations working behind the scenes to give you control over your avatar’s model.

Sculpting

Want your avatar to look just like you, or someone totally unique? Either way, you can easily mold your character’s head to match your vision.

Sculpting lets you arrange a head model to fit your desired likeness. The tech here is called FB Morph, allowing for a simple setup of meshes to work with blend shapes inside the Frostbite engine.

Basic Sculpt parameters like upper forehead width, eye socket depth, and jaw position will give you a strong starting point when designing your player. Advanced Sculpt sliders, including skull width or temple size, allow you to fine tune these details and express your true self.

Movement 

Once your avatar looks the part, Rigamate and GPU Deform technologies work to create natural facial animations like smiles or frowns. Then, ANT (Animation ToolKit) makes your character’s head movements believable and fluid in their environment.

The movement technologies behind Cranium help support your character’s facial expressions for moments like celebrating a goal or arguing a yellow card.

GPU Deform previously shipped on EA SPORTS FC 24 to help support the team’s believable character goals, and now it’s included within the suite of tools that make up the Cranium package.

Textures

Fine tune your pro with complexion, scars, and other texture controls. These features are generated in the runtime, and the Sports Tech ATG (Advanced Technology Group) built a technology called the Cryo Texture Compositor to make it all possible.

With Cranium Technology, the possibilities for recreating yourself are endless. Your avatar will look as detailed and unique as you desire, making them stand out on the pitch.

User Interface

The intuitive and fun user experience makes it easy for anyone to dive in and start creating with controls that feel natural. Adjust sliders, choose presets, or tweak your character’s face directly with the Cranium Technology character creation UI. 

Rime on ECS, a system used within the Frostbite engine that provides tools for UI development, is the UI technology you’ll interact with as you sculpt your superstar in EA SPORTS FC 25. Rime on ECS is aimed at enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of UI development, which means we can bring you more powerful options when interacting with the head model creator.

Cranium Supports Players Who Love The World’s Game

From sculpting a face to ensuring every smile and frown looks lifelike, Cranium is your ticket to creating a football avatar that's uniquely yours. Imagine the thrill of seeing your player finishing brilliant headers and hitting their celebrations in EA SPORTS FC 25.

What’s even more exciting is Cranium Technology in EA SPORTS FC 25 is just the beginning. The tools powering Cranium are not necessarily limited to one game. Instead, they’re part of a broader tech stack that will continue to evolve over time.

Cranium Technology is more than just a feature – it's a step towards a more immersive and personalized gaming experience. Get ready to create and play with avatars that look, and move, realistically.

Be part of the innovation that brings fans closer to the sports they love. At EA, we unite teams and tools to develop cutting-edge technologies like Cranium, enhancing the gaming experience for players everywhere. Explore open roles