L.A. Noire

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L.A. Noire
The Technology Behind Performance Trailer

 

[Jax]

This is the best looking game of all time. Period.

 

[Fabis94]

This is the best looking game of all time. Period.

True dat.

 

[Snailface]

Rockstar almost nailed face animation with Red Dead Redemption and I thought for sure they would perfect the technology with the next generation of consoles. I was wrong. They got it nailed less than a year later with 5 year old consoles. Amazing. Rockstar is on a hell of a winning streak.

R*

 

[FAST6191]

I had hoped they would pay a psychologist silly money to help perfect facial animations (if Jade Empire can pay someone to make up a language then.....) but this is a good stop gap measure I guess. Not to belittle them in the slightest (this is some awesome tech) but generation is surely a better goal than filming. Maybe they could try something similar to the PS1 era RPGs- voice the main plot but some of the side stories go "text only" but with muscle vectors and the like (I know this leads to a specific form of criticism).
Also I am sure it will be better for the final game but I hope they have some good clipping prevention- if you are going for immersion as they appear to be having a neck float through a shirt collar is not so nice.

I will have to put from my mind that poker game from early in the DS lifetime that did a similar thing with facial expressions.......

 

[metamaster]

This is truly amazing.
All that's left to do is to get good actors.

 

[m_babble]

Wow!

 

[Net_Bastard]

Holy dicks in a bucket.

 

[IBNobody]

Great looking faces stuck on wooden bodies and stuck running at a choppy 30FPS? I don't know...

 

[LunaValeheart]

I need my diaper changed. That was awesome. lol

R*

lol

 

[shakirmoledina]

that is as real as u can get... what more can u use other than humans
i remember the same thing being used for Hotel Dusk Part 2 and Lord of the rings movie

 

[Attila13]

Nice!

Can't wait for the release

 

[TLOZ]

Wow, never seen something like that...
Awesome.
In a few years, Rockstar will make games like hollywood movies, they just need the right engine

 

[DSman59]

The facial expression tech is very impressive but the in-game models still look like dolls.

 

[Cablephish]

That's on of the guys from the tv show Madmen, Ken Cosgrove. I'm so getting this game.

That's a really cool technique they're using. Reminds me of when they did that hologram on CNN.