L.A. Noire - The Technology Behind Performance Trailer
Today, Rockstar Games released a new trailer showing off some behind the scenes work done to get that eerie facial animation found in the first L.A. Noire trailer. Check out the video below.
...the only issue that remains is that the actors' body and head motions are recorded separately from their facial expressions. This way, there's always going to be a strange feeling of disconnect between the two because it's just too hard to sync them as an actor (you get the same problem with mocap + voice recording). We'll have to wait for Avatar-level technology in order to finally get the motion truly lifelike.
Its sorta like Avatar but not quite. Still a ways better than we've ever seen in a game. Im really looking forward to playing this one. Any release date set yet?
Wow, you know besides some texture sheen and a bit of low resolutioness at times....that was very close to climbing out of the uncanny valley.
Imagine this tech not limited to the current console generation.
Dude... you're right, it was nearly out. The skin looked a little clammy to me, and the color depth seemed a bit low which made the faces look a bit washed out (which is strange for any title with the word "noire" in it, where high-contrast facial lighting is a goddamn institution).
The fidelity on those models is incredible. You really could use a system like this to create 100% digital actors for games and film, and once scanned in, your mannerisms and facial tics would be ripped from your soul and made immortal.
Plus, they can use something like this with a custom face-model to do monsters and the like.
...the only issue that remains is that the actors' body and head motions are recorded separately from their facial expressions. This way, there's always going to be a strange feeling of disconnect between the two because it's just too hard to sync them as an actor (you get the same problem with mocap + voice recording). We'll have to wait for Avatar-level technology in order to finally get the motion truly lifelike.
Nm while typing that I've concluded this will be a good thing. People with poor bodies that do not fit the hollywood image will get roles in games that gross bigger than box offices. This will be like the 20s 2-tone starts all over.
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No you didn't. Just because fatty mcnopants can act doesn't mean he won't be taken advantage of by people who "know" the business... and then he ends up an internet hack actor like Joseph D. Kucan. This is still a can of worms.
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