Nintendo shows motion capture process for Breath of the Wild sequel, development tidbits from other games too

[Atheerios]

Nintendo has updated their job recruitment site with a big number of new sections for hiring new graduates, showing some neat details about how they develop their games.

Above you can see how they are using motion capture and Maya for Breath of the Wild sequel cutscenes.

There are lots of other interesting details and pictures in the website.

Nintendo uses Slack!

Switch heatflow simulation

Prototypes for the Switch Pro Controller

Initial concept art for ARMS

Tools used to record footsteps sounds for Link in Breath of the Wild.

ARMS prototype.


You can check them all and much more in the following pages:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/jobs/introduction/index.html

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/jobs/keyword/index.html

 

[BlueManifest]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

 

[That Naive Cube!!]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

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You mean full voice acting, right? Or more?

 

[BlueManifest]

You mean full voice acting, right? Or more?

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Full voice acting

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

Did they use motion capture for BotW 1?

 

[udivision]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

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[That Naive Cube!!]

Full voice acting

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Seems like a tall order. A bunch of AAA games still arent 100% fully voiced like DQ11.

 

[SunBroDave]

Why does everyone always refer to BOTW2 as "BOTW Sequel"? Why not just say BOTW2?

 

[Watershed]

Cool! I didn't know Nintendo used motion capture for Isabelle in AC.

 

[ciddative]

Nintendo? Motion capture? Zelda?

This is kinda breaking my mind.

It's like Nintendo is catching up to the industry circa 10 years ago.

Progress get!

 

[DecoReturns]

Why does everyone always refer to BOTW2 as "BOTW Sequel"? Why not just say BOTW2?

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Cause that's how Nintendo technically referrs to it as well lol.

I think everyone doesnt see it being called BOTW2 as well

 

[Neoxon]

Oh wow, they were originally gonna go full-on post-apocalyptic future with ARMS. Still, it's nice to see some ARMS concept art that isn't already in the game's Gallery mode.

 

[Deleted member 51691]

That ARMS concept art looks so much edgier than the final product

 

[Mary Celeste]

Why does everyone always refer to BOTW2 as "BOTW Sequel"? Why not just say BOTW2?

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probably because the game was announced as "a sequel to Breath of the Wild" and not BOTW2

 

[Neoxon]

That ARMS concept art looks so much edgier than the final product

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I wonder if the concept of a more powerful left arm was what something that the team intentionally wanted to salvage when creating Min Min.

 

[Raccoon]

all of this stuff is really cool to see

I wish the Animal Crossing models were more stylized

 

[Mr. President]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

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Nintendo? Motion capture? Zelda?

This is kinda breaking my mind.

It's like Nintendo is catching up to the industry circa 10 years ago.

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They used mocap in Ocarina of Time.

 

[What-ok]

Arms all AKIRA.

 

[ChristianH94]

Everyone's saying mocap is a first for zelda but Nintendo used mocap for a few animations in OOT and didnt they use more in twilight princess?

 

[NippleViking]

Because Nintendo is referring to it internally as the sequel to Breath of the Wild, and it almost assuredly won't be called BotW2, but will have its own unique subtitle

 

[Deleted member 51691]

Because Nintendo is referring to it internally as the sequel to Breath of the Wild, and it almost assuredly won't be called BotW2, but will have its own unique subtitle

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For the record I think "Death of the Wild" is stupid and I will be very disappointed if Nintendo goes that route

 

[Mory Dunz]

mocap isn't new for Zelda.



That ARMS art and playable demo thing are interesting.

That being said the actual direction for ARMS is soo much better than that art lol

 

[Herb Alpert]

Nintendo? Motion capture? Zelda?

This is kinda breaking my mind.

It's like Nintendo is catching up to the industry circa 10 years ago.

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Huh ?

 

[Nanashrew]

Some early sketches for the Splatoon font.

Free them!

Some 3DCG related stuff.

 

[Sacrilicious]

Why does everyone always refer to BOTW2 as "BOTW Sequel"? Why not just say BOTW2?

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I can't recall any numbered sequels in the Zelda franchise, at least not in the mainline games (yes, Zelda II was pointed out), and even direct sequels have always had different names (eg Majora's Mask, Spirit Tracks).

The game has never and almost certainly will never be called BOTW2.

 

[boyifyoudont]

Quite a lot of this has been available for a while now (the splatoon concept sketch for instance), but it's good to see it get more attention.
Interesting stuff in general.

 

[effingvic]

Heh Nintendo uses Slack. Thats kinda cool.

 

[Mory Dunz]

it'll be "spirit of the wild".

bookmark this.

 

[mopinks]

I can't recall any numbered sequels in the Zelda franchise, at least not in the mainline games

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how did you forget Zelda II

(A Link Between Worlds is also a numbered sequel in Japan)

 

[Dark Cloud]

I want to see more of this behind the scenes from Nintendo.

 

[Lobster Roll]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

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Anybody but Link, for the sake of the purpose of the character.

 

[Deleted member 1839]

Man I really want to know who the concept artist for Splatoon and Arms are. Those games have the best design from anything at EPD.

 

[bad poster]

fucked up that they have a person in charge of not making new f-zero games

 

[Deleted member 3465]

Man I really want to know who the concept artist for Splatoon and Arms are. Those games have the best design from anything at EPD.

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Yeah the character designs for both are absolutely top notch.

 

[Deleted member 51691]

fucked up that they have a person in charge of not making new f-zero games

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All those Mario spinoff games are taking away resources from Star Tropics and Chibi-Robo!

 

[Sacrilicious]

how did you forget Zelda II

(A Link Between Worlds is also a numbered sequel in Japan)

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Everyone forgets Zelda II.

ALBW is genuinely surprising though.

 

[Deleted member 41183]

https://youtu.be/cPdbTtR0nOo

They gave a whole talk at GDC about Arms featuring most of that concept art + more.

 

[julian]

I'm guessing that's the prototype for the Wii U pro controller. That's a Wii U dev kit in the pic. And is that the old Splatoon prototype on the screen?

 

[Luke88]

This looks something from 2001: A Space Odyssey

(it's a room to check if devices produce radio waves that could produce interference)

 

[Wander_]

isn't that a ps4 controller Lol.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

whoa! that's some interesting stuff

 

[Nolbertos]

I can't recall any numbered sequels in the Zelda franchise, at least not in the mainline games....

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uhmm, Zelda 2: the Adventures of Link is shown in the Boxart. Probably the last Zelda game with a number shown as a sequel.

 

[laziboi]

Nintendo? Motion capture? Zelda?

This is kinda breaking my mind.

It's like Nintendo is catching up to the industry circa 10 years ago.

Progress get!

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Nintendo's been using MoCap since the late 90s with Ocarina of Time.

 

[Common Knowledge]

Alright, I can't stop seeing the upper left first photo as Link with his dick out. Someone help me.

 

[Crushed]

 

[-shadow-]

First time motion capture used for zelda? Wonder if it will have voice acting

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Ocarina of Time already used motion capture.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

that ARMS concept reminds me of like, a parody edge manga within the story of Bakuman.

 

[bytesized]

Nice stuff, I want more!

I wonder how many workspaces and channels they have on slack.

 

[eraFROMAN]

I love this shit, Nintendo's process is such a mystery even now, and it really doesn't need to be anymore.

 

[TheCongressman]

Oh yeah, this is the good stuff. I wish Nintendo would publish more concept art books.