Have you ever wondered how Ghost of Yotei's wolf-petting scene was made? Honestly, as adorable as it is, there's a pretty good chance your answer's going to be no. The game does its job, after all, in immersing many players in the moment itself.
Foolishly, I always assumed the answer would be motion capture of an actor or developer petting a dog. You know, not a wolf. A dog. Well, no. It wasn't a wolf, but it wasn't a dog, either. It was... a person. It was a person petting a person. It was a whole thing.
TheGamer's Rhiannon Bevan was on-site today for the BAFTA Awards. She got to speak with cool people about cool things—like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Charlie Cox on how much harder video game VA work was than he had expected it to be. Rhiannon didn't chat with Ghost of Yotei actor Erika Ishii, or at least, if she did, she hasn't told me yet. But GamesRadar did. And a lovely, strange, revelation soon followed.
"I will never forget motion capturing the scene where Atsu pets the wolf, and it was Billy Harper, our director of cinematics, that was on all fours,...
