It’s a tremendously advanced process – Depth Analysis’ Oliver Bao, head of research and development, reveals that the company’s Australian facility is equipped to store 200 terabytes of capture data – but one that allows them to work more quickly than with traditional hand-animation techniques. “That’s the great thing about this system, there’s very little human interaction,” Bao observes. “Traditionally, one minute of facial animation could take a couple of animators a month. The idea is that we can mass-produce. We can produce about 20 minutes of final footage a day, and it’s seamless – I don’t even have character artists or animators working with me.”

Thousands of period items have been fully modeled, and can be manipulated by the player. Near the car, Phelps sees a pair of broken glasses and a wallet. Opening the wallet, he pulls out the various cards and photos, jotting down White’s address while noting a picture of White and his wife in happier times and the name brand of the glasses. Phelps picks up the bloody pipe, rotating it around to view the inscription “Instaheat.” Elsewhere, he sees a receipt for one live pig purchased by an A. Hogan.

All this data is recorded in the player’s notepad, which serves as an information hub for all your investigations. All locations, people, and facts related to a case are stored there, allowing you to access it instantly during an interrogation. The more facts and evidence you gather, the greater your options will be during an interview.

After a conversation with a worker who reported the missing vehicle, Phelps leaves the scene to go to the address found in the wallet, Eugene White’s residence. Elizabeth White meets us at the door. The sequence that follows gives us our first glimpse of how L.A. Noire’s animations, writing, design, and attention to detail combine to form a gripping gameplay experience.

After inviting him in, a clearly concerned Mrs. White shows Phelps to the living room. Phelps informs her that her husband appears to be missing, and that foul play is suspected. In her reaction, we see the real power of Team Bondi’s digital filming process. “I knew something was wrong when he didn’t come home!” she exclaims, furrowing her brow and darting her eyes in panic. It’s real fear we see in her face – a truly human performance by a human actress. Compared to this, even the best game animation seems plastic and stilted.

Nice work with the Facial animations, i really hope this game turns out great, i love detective type stories, my interest meter is rising!

Multiplatform release next year spring.

http://www.vg247.com/2010/11/11/l-a-noire-trailer-...

During our softly-spoken conversation, the fragile girl - sat up in bed, shivering - tries to play down her ordeal. Obviously frightened of the consequences, she tells her first lie, denying any brutality has taken place. She's unaware of the evidence in our back pocket.

The next five seconds are some of the most amazing we've ever spent in the company of a video game. We don't react - we just pause, unsure of what to say and unwilling to crush the spirit of the damaged, vulnerable victim in front of us.

Jessica's head stoops slightly, and her pupils begin to - imperceptibly at first - rotate down towards the hospital ward floor. Her shoulders seem to shrug inward by perhaps half an inch, as her eyebrows are drawn instinctively closer in a subtle frown. She obviously feels uncomfortable. Her deceit is clear.

"The doctor told me what happened," Cole says, gently. "We know you're lying Jessica."

"I didn't want that... I wanted to be a star. Juney told me I had to toughen up."

It's a shocking admission, and one which twists the deftly scripted story back on Jessica's relative - and the dirty Hollywood machine she yearns to seduce.

What follows offers revelation after revelation, Noire's sophisticated narrative untangling with confident patience.

Hidden behind our newspaper in a greasy diner, we witness June tell her boyfriend on a public phone that she has "the film"; we see a mermaid statue - the only concrete memory Jessica has from her living horror - in a photo of the props shop owned by Mark Bishop's best friend, Marlon Hopgood. And we hear Bishop's wife utter those chilling words: "My husband likes them young..."

Impressive stuff.

face capture dev video, wow!!

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?i...

New Trailer and a May 2011 release date! cant wait!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADinGMxWuQ&feature...

New Trailer and a May 2011 release date! cant wait!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADinGMxWuQ&feature...

Needs selfshadowing badly.