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Clear Angle Studios offers insights into the Hollywood tech used to create custom characters and NPCs for Star Citizen and its single-player campaign

Squadron 42 features a superstar cast, including Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis, and Henry Cavill – to name a few.
To create digital replicas of these actors, as well as player characters and other NPCs, Cloud Imperium utilised new 4D technology created by a unique partnership which included a Hollywood VFX company.
Clear Angle Studios specialises in utilising scanning technology for films and television, including its head scanning system Dorothy, which features 76 cameras and 1,500 lights to capture both 3D and 4D textures.
Last August, it partnered with 4D facial performance capture service DI4D and post-production company TexturingXYZ to launch a new 4D facial mocap service.
As part of this collaboration, Clear Angle was involved in the custom character creation and NPC scans.

The cutting edge performance capture technology behind Squadron 42

Cloud Imperium's much-delayed multiplayer space-trading title Star Citizen has been in development for well over a deca…

www.gamesindustry.biz

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Wasn't this all done like a decade ago?

 

[LostDonkey]

The PC I bought this game for will no longer be able to run it by the time it comes out.

 

[Kuranghi]

Its pretty impressive but its also kinda behind the times in terms of rendering, probably because as chap above me says, it was done a long time ago.

I have no idea if this will be any good lol is it even releasing on console?

 

[kiphalfton]

Isn't this just face scan tech?

That's like saying a traced drawing looks good; half the work was already done for you.

 

[LordOcidax]

Wasn't this all done like a decade ago?

In Cryengine…

 

[dottme]

I hope it will look better in 20 years once the game release.

 

[clarky]

Wasn't this all done like a decade ago?

Yeah luke Skywalker looks like he just finsh on ROTJ on this compared to how he looks now.

 

[clarky]

Its pretty impressive but its also kinda behind the times in terms of rendering, probably because as chap above me says, it was done a long time ago.

I have no idea if this will be any good lol is it even releasing on console?

Is it even releaing on PC would be a better question.