 What up, cutie gang? My name is Giran and you, my friend, are watching Artifact, the story behind the cool stuff of your favorite studio, Quantic Dream. And today's item is... a mask. Hey, I was thinking maybe I could do, like, Jim Carrey in the film, the mask, I put the mask and we're like, Splendid! No, I... You might be wondering, what is this? But in case you do not remember, oh, you haven't watched it. On another episode of Artifact, I'll talk to you about motion capture, a.k.a. MoCap and how you can reproduce a body digitally using a suit equipped with 25 markers. There are 56 markers from Hep2to. Well, 56 markers are necessary for the whole human body. Well, in French, we don't say, sorry, that was inaccurate. We say, oh, ça va! But for the face, it's different. As you can see on this mask, there are lots of holes because 83 markers are required. Why so many? Because in that case, we're not talking about motion capture, a.k.a. MoCap. We're talking about performance capture, a.k.a. PerfCap. I don't know, I'll just make that up. The difference is that for the body, the motion capture team needs a shape or sort of a skeleton to animate it in 3D. But when it comes to the face, you can't just capture the movement. It's about the performance of top-of-the-line actors, like Elliot Page, Willem Dafoe, or as you can read, Brian Deckard. And to convey the talent, you need to capture as many details as possible. That's why those masks are custom-made specifically for each actor. And with those 83 markers, you can seize every facial expression. It can be a smirk or a rectus, and that's why we're able to feel the emotions and the humanity of every character. So every day, when an actor or an actress arrives on set, the MoCap team have to put the mask on her or his face and then fill in every single hole with the marker so their face can be perfectly captured by the over 70 cameras of the studio. This is why Quantic Games have this very realistic and cinematic look. And by the way, this is the technique used on myself. Did you really think this was my real face? Yes, it is. Yes. Welcome to my life. See you next time, QD Gang.