{"id":25921,"date":"2018-06-15T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320113"},"modified":"2018-06-15T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:01:00","slug":"behind-the-motion-capture-kiss-in-the-last-of-us-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/behind-the-motion-capture-kiss-in-the-last-of-us-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the motion-capture kiss in The Last Of Us Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out the key to realistic kissing in video games lies within an\u00a0actor’s\u00a0ability to kiss the air convincingly while a camera is mounted mere inches from\u00a0their head.\u00a0At least\u00a0that’s how Ashley Johnson, the actress\u00a0behind The Last Of Us Part II’s<\/em> Ellie, explains it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the help of\u00a0more advanced\u00a0motion-capture, Naughty Dog was able to animate a tender kiss between Ellie and her partner Dina,\u00a0shown during a trailer of The Last Of Us Part II\u00a0<\/em>at Sony’s E3 conference last week.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

As The Verge<\/a>\u00a0reports, orchestrating the kiss took a lot of work. The mo-cap studio couldn’t accommodate\u00a0a lot of people, and so the scene had to be shot in sequences over the span of a few days, says\u00a0director Neil Druckmann.<\/p>\n

To capture Ellie’s expression, Naughty Dog needed to develop more advanced facial capture, which in turn created more complicated facial rigs.<\/p>\n

These advances resulted in better motion capture, but\u00a0the rigs themselves made it harder for the actresses to get close to each other. Because of that, they needed to go cheek to cheek and pretend to kiss the air, resulting in an akward, but convincing template for animators to work with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It turns out the key to realistic kissing in video games lies within an\u00a0actor’s\u00a0ability to kiss the air convincingly while a camera is mounted mere inches from\u00a0their head.\u00a0At least\u00a0that’s how Ashley Johnson, the actress\u00a0behind The Last Of Us Part II’s Ellie, explains it.\u00a0 With the help of\u00a0more advanced\u00a0motion-capture, Naughty Dog was able to animate a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}