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Motion Captured

November 14, 2012williamwatters

Two behind-the-scenes shots from the making of Lost Planet 3, the first showing the scanning of the face into the computer, including reference photos for the animators…

…and the second, a still from the actual motion capture performance, including unflattering close-ups from the helmet cameras the actors wear (the same cameras from James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’). Co-stars Jonathan Roumie (Celebrity Death Match), Jim Ward (Wall-E, Ben 10) and I perform a scene on the Digital Domain motion capture stage:

For a detailed account of the motion capture and animation process employed in the game, check out CapCom’s panel discussion from this year’s New York ComiCon, which features beginning-to-end footage of the scene picture above (at around the 29-minute mark):

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