How Cyberpunk 2077 got the faces mostly right
In Cyberpunk 2077, new AI-assisted facial animation by JALI Technology tries solve the age-old problem of the dead-eyed NPC, with stiff facial animations. Let’s take a look at how we got here and it could impact gaming’s future.
0:00 Capturing emotional performances in games is hard
0:27 But first, Mario 64
1:01 Facial rigging changed how characters are animated
1:39 Voice acting and dialog
2:11 2017 was the year of performance capture
3:15 2017 was also the year of Mass Effect Andromeda
4:21 JALI Research and the new facial animation
5:25 How mouth movements work
6:39 Emotional tagging in JALI
7:24 Animating digital eyes
7:51 How JALI could help localization
8:44 Animating Jackie in Cyberpunk 2077
9:29 The future of animation
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