Despite a clearly phoned-in voice over, Fox News’ Gamers Weekly has posted a video highlighting Resident Evil 5’s use of a Virtual Camera in the production of its cutscenes. This technique has intrigued me for some time, though equally interesting was the section showing the realtime feedback on the fully skinned and textured ingame characters. While it appears to be diffuse-only, this looks to be a small yet significant improvement.

[via Kotaku]

Had this sent to me at work today – class.

I’m pretty sure this was how game mocap, (or at least game voice-over), used to get done. In all seriousness though, there is something to be said for directing actors to do something other than the actual action to recieve your desired results.