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Kotaku: "Injustice 2's Facial Animation Is So Good It's Uncanny"
- Thread starter NeoRaider
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There's still a little weirdness with some of the character faces when you look at them from certain angles... it's similar to the LA Noire problem to an extent, where they very conspicuously look superimposed over the models in odd ways.
I notice it most with Supergirl, I think it's the hair/hairline that breaks the effect.
I notice it most with Supergirl, I think it's the hair/hairline that breaks the effect.
bangbang i'm a timpani
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#blinkgate
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
Honestly I think this face looks really cool.
TrueDefault
Member
Whoa whoa, this should be the standard of facial animation from now on.Nah, not with those eyebrows
Most people don't care.
Astral Dog
Member
OMG
These cutscenes are much better than the ones in Uncharted 4 !
Legit amazed :O
These cutscenes are much better than the ones in Uncharted 4 !
Legit amazed :O
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Wow very good animations!
Garrett Hawke
Member
I'm pretty sure they are actually using UE4. They're listed on Unreal's website as using it.
lucebuce12
Member
It's the mobile version of the game that uses UE4.
The console version uses a HEAVILY modified version of UE3, the same one they used in MKX only further expanded upon.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Is this 100% confirmed?
Hmm. Their materials seriously look like UE4 mats so I assumed that the website was referring to the console version. If it is UE3 they have done incredibly impressive work to the renderer
Touche'
You are correct
According to Wikipedia, they are using UE4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetherRealm_Studios
Perhaps that has a lot to do with the improved facial animations. Once the lower body follows suit, the game will flow even better visually.
Icedburden
Member
I know. A majority of people complaining about the animations would NEVER have noticed anything if it weren't for that previous article/video. Now, they think the animations are 'janky.'
Garrett Hawke
Member
No, people have been complaining about NRS animations since MK9. It is really not a new thing, go look at IJ2 trailer threads on gaf before that video came out and you'll see complaints.
Edit: here, i saved you the trouble
literally just from the first page of this thread http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1357611 which came out well before that video
According to lucebuce they're only using it for the mobile version, which is surprising
I wish they would confirm it somewhere as the materials really do look like ue4.They're still using their heavily modified version of UE3, they're only using UE4 for the mobile versions. Even GG:Xrd(UE3 game) showed up in some UE4 show-reels, Epic does that sometime.
lucebuce12
Member
No, people have been complaining about NRS animations since MK9. It is really not a new thing, go look at IJ2 trailer threads on gaf before that video came out and you'll see complaints.
According to lucebuce they're only using it for the mobile version, which is surprising
I have the mobile version installed, and it shows the Unreal Engine 4 logo when it booted up. I don't think that the console game uses UE4, as that would have been reported.
It does make sense though. The mobile version was made by a completely separate team so they could afford to go for something newer, while the console dev team already had a perfectly functional engine that they've put time and money into which suits their needs very well so why change when you can get equally good results with what you have.
No, people have been complaining about NRS animations since MK9. It is really not a new thing, go look at IJ2 trailer threads on gaf before that video came out and you'll see complaints.
According to lucebuce they're only using it for the mobile version, which is surprising
I'm fascinated how far they have come with UE3, considering the age of the engine. If INJ3 uses UE4 from the ground up, along with the improved animations from top to bottom... We will have a visual masterpiece.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I think if you showed the average person Injustice Wonder Woman and Injustice 2 Wonder Woman and told them they were both from the same company, they'd call you a dirty liar lol
Garrett Hawke
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ah ok, that's very confusing and annoying ^^
yeah, definitely. ij2 looks visually gorgeous anyway so whatever they've done to ue3 is working well for them
it is pretty incredible, I would put this up there with Arkham Knight for UE3 games. it even has much nicer materials which were an area that AK was a little short (although that game was very "wet", which helped them a lot)
manfestival
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heavenly sword is still the golden standard
Huh. I thought that gif made the animation look awful.
oldergamer
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The cut scenes does anyone know if they are real time? Im pretty sure they are video since theres literally no loading. Im super impressed by the game.
WAR recon zero
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and there's that video of the guy that will not play it because the animation looks stiff, because the feet are stuck to the ground
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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The best I've ever seen. Everything else in the game is up to that new standard, too.
i guess that would make this not objective, weird
WAR recon zero
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Fake Cavill is better animated than Snyder's Cavill
Revolutionary
Member
Harley's facial animations are amazing in this game.
Stolen from the IJ2 main thread
Yeah, the improvement is easy to see. Good on ya, NR.
Just fix the weird ass fighting animations.
shadow_shogun
Member
The facial animations weren't uncanny or unsettling, they were insanely impressive. Injustice 2 has the one of most realistic facial animations I've ever witness, NRS did a splendid job.
Handy Fake
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Very clever way of handling the hair issue there as well. Those curls remove the need for the janky "split ends" issue that a lot of games have. Very cool.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
Now if only the actual game animation and art design wasn't so shit. Looking forward to the NRS produced CG film though.
more well written too
The art design is alright, it just veers in a more realistic direction than something more comic book-esque like (U)MvC3. You are right about the in-game combat animations, but some improvements have been made.
Holy shit Harley's animations here. Wow.
Damn
Fredrik
Member
Yeah Ninja Theory's games in general has been awesome when it comes to both acting and facial animation. And L.A Noire too. This is still great though, makes me want to get the game even thought the first one was kinda bad.
mckmas8808
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Couldn't disagree more.
Heavenly Sword has been surpassed multiple times over.