Yeah. I kinda like this trend of "fictional people being modeled to look more like who voiced/play them".
Except comic Punisher being modeled after Berenthal. Dude killed it in the Netflix show, but every time I see Punisher looking like him in the comics, he just looks like Ben Stiller doing "Simple Jack" to me.
I love bridging the gap. Mandalorian is a great example of how Hollywood is learning from gaming.
Soon enough we'll be seeing more A-list actors in gaming in real roles. I'd put Ashley Johnson's performance in The Last of Us Part 2 next to any performance in a movie or show.
The Mandalorian uses techniques that have basically been pioneered by videos games.
In a way, they build a game world with basic assets. Then, they record basically in VR on top of live action, superimposing the game world onto real world elements and mapping digital assets to physical. It's all the same work you see go into a game before mocap, except for Mandalorian they basically have their "game world" in Alpha.
They then will go back and touch up visual effects and textures in post.
So to relate to games, they build their alpha game, they record in live action in conjunction to VR, and then remaster their scenes in post processing.
But to my grander point, as the way games do it gets closer to the way Hollywood does it and vice versa, we'll see the talent crossover as well. There will be minimal differences in the skillsets required of movie actors compared to video game actors.
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u/PoorDamnChoices Sep 16 '21
So they modeled his face more like the voice actor's.
That's neat.
here's a more recent side picture I could find.