L.A. Noire's Gag Reel Bridges the Uncanny Valley

[Elijah Newton]

How on earth did they motion capture the tongues?

 

[COMaestro]

Wow, watching the video, I see the most genuine-looking smiles I've ever seen in a video game. Too bad they were in the outtakes and not the actual game. The capture tech was really impressive here, especially with the tongues and eyebrows.

 

[Fwee]

The tech is impressive, but I just wonder why you have all these big-name actors and actresses (which probably cost some serious money) act out all the scenes and then make super-realistic in game form (which was also probably super-expensive) when altogether the interrogations could have just as easily been part of a Sega CD game.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Oh my god, the tongues looked so weird. An impressive video though, let's hope we see more of this in the next generation of games.

 

[likalaruku]

LA Noire....Hated the graphics, loved the bugs.

I detest motion capture & rotoscoping. Ralph Bakshi's stuff still makes my skin crawl.

Game had some hilarious glitches though.

 

[Somebloke]

Man... How many hours of shouting had the actor had before, during that session, for the last one? :7

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I freaking lost it at the eyebrows.
Anyway.
That was really interesting. It's funny and the *tinniest* bit bizarre to watch digital characters crack up like that. If I didn't know about the technology behind this game, I would've thought the bloopers were scripted just so they could add some humor for no reason.
Kind of like Resident Evil: Degenerations' "bloopers"...

 

[kburns10]

Got a good laugh out of this! Wish I had seen this sooner.

 

[Elum]

Because the video released by Depth Analysis shows only unused/unreleased bloopers, I've made a comparison video - I've combined those bloopers with the corresponding scenes from the actual game. Hope You'll like it: