Thursday, April 7, 2011

L.A. Noire - Realtime Facial Animation


This is just too cool to be left out. Next month, Rockstar Games [the makers of the controversial yet ridiculously fun Grand Theft Auto series] are releasing their newest game : L.A. Noire. The facial animation of the characters in this game has to be seen to be believed.

First official trailer :


A few videos explaining the gameplay a bit more :




..and a look behind the scenes on how the facial animations were created :


This is definitely a big step forward for actor/story-driven games. For more info on the game, here's the link.

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