Guild Wars 2 - Cinematic Conversation B

Source: ArenaNet Blog

ArenaNet has vastly improved upon it's characters in cinematic discussions. Their guestures and lip-sync have been completely refined making characters more unique and a lot more realistic - human even!

"After some prototyping and experimenting, we decided to use a layered approach to the cinematic-conversation animation system, utilizing motion capture, hand-keyed animation, additive animation, and very robust lip-synching software." - Chunk Jackman

Catch up on exactly how this is all done in their latest blog entry! http://bit.ly/vJrtA1

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Guild Wars 2
• Character cinematic
• cinematic video
• improved cinematic
• character lip-sync
• character gesture
• Lip Sync
• Animation
• motion capture
• Xsens MVN system
• hand-keyed animation
• additive gestures
• Heron Prior
• Chunk Jackman
• facial expressions
• facial gestures
• FaceFX

[Shadechidna]

FFF RELEASE DATE PLEASE!!! D:

[TheBiowasp]

WOW! They improved the animations a lot

[gwiatss]

@bdordai92 I know that glitches suck, and don't get me wrong they do need fixed, but q4 2012 is way to long for them to wait. With new games like diablo 3 and other big titles coming out they need to not try and release during Christmas to many other games will. Also with these new systems no way that they will get all the glitches. But do note this, since the system allows u to proceed in any direction at any point u can really continue playing while they fix a glitch and not get stuck back

[Renxsis123]

The graphics are just great!

[FrontierChampion]

@Cbakezz True it's Nolan North

[bdordai92]

@amaterasu159357 SWOTR ...WOW with laser swords and robots instead of pigs ,gw2 a totally new mmo , and i dont want wow players in gw 2, the end! (is that racist? rofl)

[amaterasu159357]

as much as id hate for them to release this game prematurely....i still think realeasing early is better than q1 2012..right now...especially now...people are leaving WoW...and say what you want but WoW is the best MMO out there >>NOW<<.....and they are looking for a game to replace the "void" that they will have in thier hearts after leaving WoW =p...and if realeased now....GW2 can be that game......if they wait...im 100% sure...The old republic will take most of thos people..

[Shadechidna]

@bdordai92 I know XD I agree 100% XD But it still kills me the game isn't out yet cuz all the other games atm suck major balls and ontop of it I can't keep playing Aion x_x it sucks as it is but i only play it to troll my friends LOL

[bdordai92]

@Shadechidna after i saw skyrim bugs and glitches i dont mind if they release gw2 on Q4 of 2012 , dont get me wrong but i dont want to see bugs in main quest or some other annoying glithces

[Scrabbulor]

They really are giving this game their all. I respect that immensely! I also like how you can't clearly see the polygons on curved surfaces:P Can't wait, but will continue to once improvement are this good:D