You Will Not Believe You’re Watching This L.A. Noire Blooper Reel

21 responses to “You Will Not Believe You’re Watching This L.A. Noire Blooper Reel”

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   Parasiah

   February 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm

   That was brilliant!!!

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   andy

   February 4, 2013 at 1:15 pm

   Did not find that at all funny. Mondayitis wrong side of bed syndrome..

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      bob

      February 4, 2013 at 1:22 pm

      I didn’t find it funny either, but I still enjoyed watching it.

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      Daveo

      February 4, 2013 at 11:13 pm

      Well i laughed my ass off

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   badger

   February 4, 2013 at 1:16 pm

   That was a lot of fun.

   I thought they captured the facial performances and physical performances separately? So these are probably real vocal bloopers, animated to make them seem like on-set bloopers? I could be wrong.

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      sylver

      February 4, 2013 at 1:25 pm

      I’d always thought that they captured the voice and face at the same time with their special cameras, then animated the character’s body after.

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         banderdash

         February 4, 2013 at 1:37 pm

         Yeah… that’s what I thought too.

         Maybe someone just went in and linked it to animations from the game?

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         whitepointer

         February 4, 2013 at 1:37 pm

         Yes, voice and face were captured at the same time. These are not simply vocal bloopers that have been animated (Which would have been impossible anyway, as the faces in LA Noire were not animated by hand), these are the actors genuinely messing up their lines and their facial expressions after doing so.

         And yes the reel is real.

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            badger

            February 4, 2013 at 3:09 pm

            Sorry if I wasn’t clear. That’s what I meant by “physical” and “facial” captures being separate. Real face/voice bloopers that were added to body animations later.

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               sylver

               February 4, 2013 at 4:39 pm

               Ah, so we’re all talking about the same thing anyway.
               Carry on then!

4. 

   jacka

   February 4, 2013 at 1:30 pm

   I’m kinda hoping these tabloid women’s magazine style headlines are being made ironically.

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5. 

   firaenix

   February 4, 2013 at 1:34 pm

   I thought it was especially awesome as one of the ex Team Bondi employees now works in my workplace and we often talk about when she was working on L.A. Noire.

   Her friend was the one to come up with the Depth Analysis technology.

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6. 

   mrbs

   February 4, 2013 at 1:51 pm

   Ah game bloopers. I might need to go watch the Legacy of Kain VA outtakes again. Those were great.

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      drunkaus

      February 4, 2013 at 4:58 pm

      I remember seeing those years ago under the bonus menu on Soul Reaver 2, will have to find em on youtube.

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   piat

   February 4, 2013 at 1:53 pm

   yay so glad these made the light of day, I remember when we first dug all these up during my internship, just the video of the DA recordings, even better that they’ve put them into the game

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      piat

      February 4, 2013 at 2:12 pm

      surrender now and nobody has to rahkbalaha…shit

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8. 

   germinalconsequence

   February 4, 2013 at 7:42 pm

   More games need to include blooper reels. I was so impressed when POP: The Two Thrones had a blooper reel unlock. All pre-rendered of course, but voice acted and everything.

   Still, there’s something really creepy about the movement in these outtakes. Especially when they make sudden outbursts, though the eyebrow thing was quite the awesome.

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9. 

   sargey

   February 4, 2013 at 10:53 pm

   The sneeze = best.

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10. 

    adrianr

    February 5, 2013 at 12:12 am

    That was pretty cool, I enjoyed it.

    I thought though that they recorded the actors independently, but that video made it seem like they had multiple people at the same time. Can anyone clue me in?

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    1. 

       citizen7

       February 5, 2013 at 12:38 am

       Kudos to the people at Depth Analysis the team behind the motion capture work for LA Noire. – I hope they’re finding more exciting work after.
       It would have been very cool to see the actors IRL doing their lines while we see their digital avatars at work. Looking at their site http://depthanalysis.com/motionscan/capture/ , it seems Depth Analysis uses a different setup to the full body suits that we see in movies (e.g. LoTR, Ted) or games like the recent DmC reboot.
       Who knows – maybe one day we will have multiplayer games that will capture our facial expressions and voices… at least, until people with mysteriously long noses, bulbous cheeks, and big bushy eyebrows ruin things for everyone.

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          adrianr

          February 5, 2013 at 2:11 am

          I found a video for you, it shows a little bit of what you wanted, but you may have already seen it.
          From the video it seems that they do the movements with the normal full body suits but the facial expressions and dialogue with the new setup.
          http://youtu.be/NTOlEUAtGog

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