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[shinobi602]

Never really heard of the technology myself, but it looks great to me...

Xbox One exclusive Quantum Break will make use of a nifty piece of face-scanning technology known as DI4D, created by Scottish middleware company Dimensional Imaging. As explained by the latter's CEO Colin Urquhart in the latest issue of OXM, DI4D allows developers to scan actors in three dimensions while they perform, and thus represents "the highest fidelity of facial motion capture that's available on the market".

The tech eschews older techniques such as make-up markers and structured light; instead, performances are captured by way of nine cameras arranged around the capturing area, and operating at 60 frames a second. Accordingly, Remedy is able to "really capture the detail and subtlety of the performances" you'll see in Quantum Break, a photo-realistic shooty-puzzly endeavour in which players can stop time.

Remedy's creative director Sam Lake has said a little more on the subject to Develop. "Quantum Break is a hugely ambitious project that combines action and narrative components in a unique way to bring the characters to life," he told the site via press release. "The only way to achieve the high quality of performance was to create highly realistic digital doubles of talented actors.

"By using Dimensional Imaging's DI4D facial performance capture solution combined with our Northlight storytelling technology, we can ensure that every nuance of the actors' performances are captured on screen."

Via OXM

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Phil Spencer has never looked better.

 

[op_ivy]

this all must be in anticipation of VGX. get that hype machine going boys!

 

[notBald]

That woman looks creepy

 

[RoboPlato]

It's a pretty great solution. Much easier to set up than most facial capture techniques. I expect we'll see a lot of it this gen.

 

[Can Crusher]

Well the facial animation shown thus far looks incredible. Next gen is going to make game acting a serious gig.

 

[Silky]

It's only good face animation if it can do that

 

[oVerde]

Phil Spencer has never looked better.

first post and all that jazz

 

[mocoworm]

That looks awesome !

 

[dugdug]

This is awesome. Glad they're putting emphasis on this, because the faces in Alan Wake were awful.

 

[DragonSworne]

Why does everyone have black hair?

They should use David Bowie.

 

[SuicidalSteve]

edit: Damnit Silky Lol

 

[Tunesmith]

Good, no more:

 

[nelsonroyale]

Looks a huge step up from AW. Great work.

 

[Sinfamy]

I'm actually not that impressed, and I can only guess that in-game it will look even less impressive. Half life 2 blew me away in 2004 and it still holds up.

 

[ComputerMKII]

Quantic Dream: (laughs)

 

[Teletraan1]

That woman's hair looks like it is using lego tech.

 

[Chobel]

Stupid Remedy, you should kept this technology to yourself.

Spoiler

jk

It's great that this technology is not propriety of Remedy/MS, it means more games with great facial animations.

 

[Toxa]

I'm actually not that impressed, and I can only guess that in-game it will look even less impressive. Half life 2 blew me away in 2004 and it still holds up.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

As long as it's better than Alan Wake's facial animation then they've done everything correctly.

 

[Nightengale]

Phil Spencer has never looked better.

Not convinced yet.

That killer smile is hard even on tech.

 

[NotMyRealName]

Isn't this what L.A. Noire used?

 

[scitek]

I think Alan Wake used Muppet technology.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Not convinced yet.

That killer smile is hard even on tech.

lol. Those Xbox team blazers kill me. They need to stop wearing them.

 

[- J - D -]

Anybody ever seen this tech in action prior to QB?

On Dimensional Imaging's website, they list the following companies licensing their services:

Sony SCEA
Valve
EA
Remedy Games

It looks pretty good, even in their older videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0bSbGKGVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wriTh6pg7To

 

[Wynnebeck]

It gonna be a while before anyone beats Beyond in facial animation. The Last of Ish comes close though.

 

[Azih]

Is it better than whatever LA Noire used?

 

[Slayer-33]

It gonna be a while before anyone beats Beyond in facial animation. The Last of Ish comes close though.

Doesn't Ryse have sick facial animation?

 

[Chobel]

Anybody ever seen this tech in action prior to QB?

On Dimensional Imaging's website, they list the following companies licensing their services:

Sony SCEA
Valve
EA
Remedy Games

Half Life 3?

 

[Wishmaster92]

One of the best implementations to date, gj Remedy.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

I'm not a fan of facial motion capturing. It always gives me heavy uncanny valley feelings.

I like what NaughtyDog did in TheLastOfUs. They manually animated faces and didn't capture them.
Looked at lot better than top tier facial capturing like in Crysis3 or Beyond: Two Souls.

 

[Jonnax]

Is that ingame? Because that's looks crazy good.

 

[Astroroot]

That woman looks creepy

She looks phenomenal.

 

[Skittles]

Nothing above the eyes moves when they talk and it looks kind of jarring.

 

[synce]

It's only good face animation if it can do that

Max Payne?

 

[Tsundere]

This technology is going to get better and better, can't wait to see what the big studios will be able to do with all this powerful tech.

 

[ComputerMKII]

Is that ingame? Because that's looks crazy good.

Yes, it's in-game.

That woman looks creepy

 

[AlStrong]

Not convinced yet.

That killer smile is hard even on tech.

 

[angular graphics]

Half Life 3?

More like L4D2 and onwards. They have been using DI's tech since 2009. http://m.ign.com/articles/2009/08/03/dimensional-imaging-unveils-new-expression-capture-system

 

[Nibel]

I'm pretty certain that the tech is capable of great stuff, but so far I'm rather unimpressed - I think the main reason is that the color palette of the shown scenes with faces is making the faces looking kind of flat and unsaturated

 

[twobear]

More like L4D2 and onwards. They have been using DI's tech since 2009. http://m.ign.com/articles/2009/08/03/dimensional-imaging-unveils-new-expression-capture-system

I guess this explains why L4D has some of the best character face modelling and animation in the business.

 

[Vitor711]

Max Payne?

Max Payne! Dearest of all my friends.

 

[Eattheirdead]

I'm definitely a sucker for good facial animation, but I want better hair before better faces. The hair in AC4 really bothers me for some reason, and I'd really like to see, one day, hair quality on the par of the "TressFX" hair from the PC version of Tomb Raider.

 

[Wishmaster92]

I'm actually not that impressed, and I can only guess that in-game it will look even less impressive. Half life 2 blew me away in 2004 and it still holds up.

This is in-game...

 

[Flai]

Is that ingame? Because that's looks crazy good.

Pretty sure that's not.

 

[Fezan]

This is in-game...

ill be honest here. There is some thing misding. I cant put my finger on it but this doesnt feel natural at all

 

[Marvel]

I thought I put this nightmare behind me!

No sleep for me tonight.

 

[strafer]

is this real life? I can't tell the difference.

Looks fantastic.

Hope Alan Wake have better facials.

 

[Sinfamy]

This is in-game...

Just how Forza 5 was "in-gane". I meant rendered on the Xbone, in real time.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

this all must be in anticipation of VGX. get that hype machine going boys!

This game is going to be so awesome