The Tech Behind LA Noire's Performances

Wow, that's amazing.

Something weird about the voice sync but this technology is straight from the future.

Terrifying.

WHY ARE ROCKSTAR GAMES SO AWESOME 
 
 
WHY DID THIS VIDEO SCARE ME  
 
 
I LOVE YOU ROCKSTAR GAMES 

Holy christ this facial capture looks BANANAS.  I'm blown away at how cool that looks

" @Lind_L_Taylor said:

" Gimmicky.  Looks like one of those games that plays themselves. All I need is a soft drink & a bag of popcorn, kick back, & enjoy the show.  "

Yeah, because you can tell that from a few minutes of cinematics. If you're going to troll try to be subtle, or at the very least have some basis in reality. "

Oh my god. 

It still annoys me, its impressive but it doesn't match the quality of the rest of the animation or models which in turn just puts it further down the uncanny valley. 

" That actually looks pretty fucking rad, interested to hear more about this "

Hello, future.

This looks so goddamn amazing!

If they could incorporate the voice commands of the Kinect into this to choose what question you are going to ask.  
 
instead of hitting "A" to ask something, if you are able to actually ask it, I think it would be a  unreal experience. 

Goddamn I wish this game was on PC. It looks fucking great but the framerate is incredibly low in what I've seen.

Although super cool, there felt like there was something strange between the body and facial movements. Looking forward to seeing a finished product however.

Before this video I had absolutely zero interest in this game. 
 
Hooray for Australian Development!!

Maybe they can work on fixing that 22khz sound sampling they've got going on there.
 
LOL RIGHT?

this is incredible

Holy crap holy crap.

Fantastic facial animation, but is it just me or do the hats in that game all look a little oversized? Like they are designed to be big enough to cover up the hair, when in reality they would be smaller and instead compress the hair.

it looks amazing but I hope they won't let it like this, I hope they will do more shading on the faces and the voices sound like it's in a recording studio and too close to the mic, I know it's work in progress.

Maybe they can finally fix the motion capture technology after this.  While the faces in the game look great, the full body animation suffers from the same mocap problems as always: 
 

• hockey hands: The hands look like the character is wearing hockey gloves.  The fingers don't move naturally since they're not captured and have to be animated afterwards.  This tends to also result in the fingers being spread too far out, like claws.  This is typically due to those hand animators not being very good animators in the first place.  See the 1:15 when the guy picks up the regulator valve.
• broken wrists: The wrists are also something hard to track so they often appear unnatural when holding objects.  This can also be seen at 1:15.
• flailing: The actors generally exaggerate their movements since mocap tends to get noisy in the more subtle motions.  This results in a lot more flailing which can give the impression the character is like a marionette and not always in control of their own body movements.

wow straight up amazing!

That looks fantastic.

Love/hate relationship. Love the brilliance of the new tech. Hate the fact that now the old standards will look like utter crap to me.

Looks amazing. That grocery store clerk really stood out to me for some reason.

well avatar did both the motion capture and the face capture at once and it looked outstanding. sooooo im getting really tired of every few months a another behind the scenes tech video showing off their super cool cinematics technology. until they all lighten up and learn from the ease of which avatar did things they'll never be as good as they can because their current process takes too long.  
 
 
but this game does look incredible so im glad its working out anyways, i just wish they would stop boasting their tech like its amazing because there's way better stuff being done 
 
 
also even though the animation looks fantastic the cheesy acting cant be made to appear any better. 

The only thing that comes to mind looking at that is "Wow, that looks fucking amazing", and this isn't even the finished product. 

this is incredible!

Looks great but I can't get out of the uncanny valley myself. For me one of the best looking game around is ME2 but that might be me suspending my disbelief more easily knowing it's a game, whereas I look at the main guy from L.A Noire and immediately I see dude from Mad Men. 
  
It's an emerging tech and I think it will develop fast, hopefully in terms of textures as well. 

Hey it's the dude from Fringe. This looks so rad.

 kenny cosgrove