The new next gen facial animation and model tech for Star Citizen is just unreal

CIG has been working with 3lateral to create this technology. The artist for CIG help do the assets with 3lateral doing the rigging. There already a character creator for this.

3.0 production schedule, in the "Completed Branch" - Finalized delivery of ALL facial assets from 3Lateral

but but its going to be outdated

Yeah that's misleading, that's not Star Citizen.

Same company, but that demo is not Star Citizen.

Holy crap, that would be awesome. Now just release the damn game!

I hope we see some new gameplay trailer from squadron 42!

@Wasdie: Yep they have the same tech.

Here's the Star Citizen one.

https://youtu.be/1UeYaoXWGJo

@Wasdie: Hopefully they can put that tech to use for CGI movies or something useful when the game fails to launch.

*runs away* :P

Honestly I would be more excited about an interesting story and campaign. I am getting an impression that this game will be visually sublime bit with a subpar story. I need dark, mysterious atmosphere, like Dark Souls in space, but right now the game looks more and more like a Nasa space faring simulator. This not what makes games cool. I will take cool art style and good plot over sleek graphics and realism any day.

woah

Another my concern is that every time they come up with some new technology, it delays the game for another 6 months lol. As they probably need to migrate everything to that technology, then get it tested, etc. It's all translated in delays, delays and more delays.

@bloodytides:

Looks almost as good as Persona 5.

Its not star citizen, thats a tech demo of 3laterals facial animation tech.

This is Star Citizen.

You best still be running.

That's exactly what Squadron 42 will be with it's single-player story campaign, it will be a mix of Apocalypse Now meets Heart of Darkness in a space setting with one of the most impressive cast ever assembled for an entertainment project (that's movies and video-games included).

These guys were contracted by CIG years ago. They have exceptional talent of making use of facial capture data. They did all of the cutscenes for Ryse. CIG contracted these guys to basically do all of the fine tuning of the animations and getting them to a useable state in-game rather than hiring people to do that internally for the dozens of faces they mocapped.

They have an internal team that can do them now, but probably not to the same quality as this company and since Squardon 42 was supposed to be out this year, they didn't have time to build up that internal department after their primary motion capture shoot.

Rhona Mitra mmm :D