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Resident Evil Village's motion capture was recorded at Sony Santa Monica's mo-cap stage

Neoxon

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On top of the seemingly-close relationship between Capcom & Sony, it looks like Capcom's slowly-but-surely moving away from Just Cause Productions (Reuben Langdon's motion capture studio that Capcom has used for years). Hopefully this eventually leads to Capcom cutting ties with Reuben Langdon & Just Cause Productions entirely in the near future. And going by what I've seen of RE8, Sony Santa Monica, the actors, & the crew involved did great work.

In the case of when Capcom most recently used Just Cause Productions, it seems like they were last used for Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition (which was released last year), with their most recent Resident Evil game being the Resident Evil 2 remake (which was released in 2019).

Source: Jonathan Cooper (Twitter)
 
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That explains a lot. The animations of this game are incredible.
 
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Just had the scene from all the trailers with Ethan being strung up, the subtle movements and flourishes by Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters were sublime.
 
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Makes sense. Why built something from scratch when you can just rent the space?

Edit: And to be clear, the technology Sony has implemented I believe has only gotten better since God of War + Last of Us part 1. Troy Baker talked about it a bit.
 
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This is actually super interesting, and I wonder why exactly.

The animations in the game are top notch, as to be expected by something done by a premiere Playstation studio, but it does beg some questions about their relationship. Interested to see how this evolves
 
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Sony Santa Monica allows a lot of people to do motion capture there. The Mega 64 guys have said that they were offered the use of the studio to do stuff too. It doesn't mean there's any sort of bigger relationship just from this.
 
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This is not interesting at all. Companies rent facilities all time. It's just production costs.
 
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Neoxon

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Noog said:
This is actually super interesting, and I wonder why exactly.

The animations in the game are top notch, as to be expected by something done by a premiere Playstation studio, but it does beg some questions about their relationship. Interested to see how this evolves
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To be honest, I'm more curious about the implications of Capcom's relationship with Just Cause Productions (& by extension, Reuben Langdon). If this means that Capcom is actually moving away from Reuben (albeit quietly like Insomniac seemingly did), we could see Dante & Ken be recast in the not-too-distant future.
 
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EggmaniMN said:
Sony Santa Monica allows a lot of people to do motion capture there. The Mega 64 guys have said that they were offered the use of the studio to do stuff too. It doesn't mean there's any sort of bigger relationship just from this.
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Yeah I mean, its a business. You got a large studio youre not always using, you may as well rent it.
 
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I don't believe this is uncommon. I forgot which game it was but in the credits they had to thank Quantic Dream for the use of their mocap studio. Seems to be a standard industry thing.
 
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Noog said:
This is actually super interesting, and I wonder why exactly.

The animations in the game are top notch, as to be expected by something done by a premiere Playstation studio, but it does beg some questions about their relationship. Interested to see how this evolves
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the most likely answer is that SSM opens their studio to anyone. if MS or Nintendo wanted to use it, they probably can
 
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I'm hesitant to call it a trend but them not using Just Cause is at least a good thing even if it's a one off.
 

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Very good to hear, hopefully every company who does business with him follows suit. Fuck Langdon.
 
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Neoxon said:
RE3make also didn't use Just Cause Productions from what I was able to look up, hence why I'm saying that I hope that this is actually a growing trend.
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Oh that's good to hear, I'm wondering if there were contractual obligations for DMC5: SE and they had to go back for that game in particular before moving away again for Village.
 
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Good move cutting ties with Langdon. I also prefer not to do business with right wing conspiracy nuts.
 

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It's baffling how Capcom has to rely on third party facilities instead of building their own mo-cap studio. Their games rely a lot on mo-cap and animations and they don't lack resources to build a new one.
 

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Didn't they use Just Cause's Tokyo studio previously? Not sure Reuben Langdon alone would have pushed them across the Pacific.
 

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Neoxon said:
RE3make also didn't use Just Cause Productions from what I was able to look up, hence why I'm saying that I hope that this is actually a growing trend.
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Wonder if this will be the case if he returns as Ken in SF6.

Pragmata and Revelations 3/Outrage I could see his studio not be involved.
 
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Raigor said:
It's baffling how Capcom has to rely on third party facilities instead of building their own mo-cap studio. Their games rely a lot on mo-cap and animations and they don't lack resources to build a new one.
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Maybe the time it takes to build a studio didn't work with whatever production schedule they had for this project.
 
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Since we are all aboard this crazy train right now, if they buy Capcom they better nab Squeenix too
 
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I was under the impression most mocap studios is fair game for rental/use since they arent being used all of the time.

I think its more interesting that both RE7 and RE8 were mocapped in english with American voice actors. I don't know many other Japanese games that do this.
 
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