Thread 718830086

when will devs stop wasting money with this?

its way cheaper than paying someone to animate faces manually and it looks way better whats the problem

>it doesn't appeal to me so it's a waste of money
millenials are fucking insane

>>718830112
>>718830137
Hollywood face scan slop is a large part of why AAA development has become so grossly expensive and unsustainable

>>718830137
It's also killing the industry. So on second thought, they should keep doing it.

>>718830112
>its way cheaper than paying someone to animate faces manually
Not when you're paying for hollywood actors.
>looks way better whats the problem
Strong disagree but not going to bother arguing tastes.

LA noire is still peak of face scan, it's like a bump-mapped video playing over a face

>>718830112
>it's le cheaper
is that why making games now costs 50 times more money than it ever has?

>>718830112
^this
Thanks to the boom in motion capturing the amount of animators capable foo making good facial animations is fucking low. So you either hire the really good ones for a lot of cash or you pay shitters to work on itineraries for ages so it isn't completely awful.
Either way it gets expensive.

>>718830112
why would I want animated faces? Animated faces on games like PES 6, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Shenmue were already good

>>718830210
Yeah but it's made AA game development significantly cheaper. It's only when you have big name actors with thousands of lines does the cost start to add up. You can do really good face capture animation in your bedroom with an iphone nowadays, it's a game changer for small studios and indies. Just stop playing AAA slop if it upsets you so much.

>>718830272
now change the color of the eyes or make a slightly different expression than the actor did because something changed in the script.. oh wait you can't because it's all fucking baked in. it was a nice tech demo but it's useless for classic pipeline

>>718830086 (OP)
Never

>>718830086 (OP)
mocap can be soulful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x95LbZ9dEq0

>>718830272
LA Noire is pretty uncanny and the character's heads look weirdly deattached from their bodies.

>>718833804
This one is kino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9FWG5dQWM

>>718830275
Inflation, anon. People aren't being paid the same as they were twenty years ago. Everything involved is more expensive because the world is more expensive. The only "cheap" game development is small scale, when time is worth less to the developers because they're usually not paid to work on the game.

>>718833428
The marketing budget is likely dozens of times more expensive than the game development associated costs, since the main point of hiring celebrity is for promotional purposes.

>>718830086 (OP)
that hair looks so fucking bad,
we're still in super dated graphics times, cant wait til we replicate real girls better, so we can coom better

>>718833657
You can always rely on an awkward smile :}

>>718834107
>mocap footage with japanese actors and english dialogue
>game footage with japanese voices and english subtitles
this annoys me more than it should

It nearly always manages to look like shit too, unless the character is standing still and properly posed.