This is such a wonderfully weird video. It’s a pretty common thing to see on DVD – a blooper reel of actors messing up. What’s weird about it is that the bloopers are from the video game, L.A. Noire, and are motion captured.
L.A Noire blooper reel
This is such a wonderfully weird video. It’s a pretty common thing to see on DVD – a blooper reel of actors messing up. What’s weird about it is that the bloopers are from the video game, L.A. Noire, and are motion captured.
MotionScanned, actually.. http://depthanalysis.com/motionscan/what-is-it/
The game was just OK, but the facial animation was so good, you could read lips. One of the game mechanics (you’re a detective in 1940’s LA) is to select “truth, lie, or maybe” when the suspect/witness spoke. MotionScan made that possible – most of the time – by reading subtle facial expressions.
I’ve seen this before with CGI. I think one of the Pixar movies and a couple of the Dreamworks movies have outtakes.
But, of course, L.A. Noire with its amazing facial expressions pushes this far beyond that. I really want this game. I rented it for a week when it was a hot new release, and I was blown away by the facial expressions and body language.
Pretty damn good. In fact, it was so good, I think I recognized an actor playing one of the guys in prison.