GTA's Tommy Vercetti Talks MoCap

Posted by simoniker on Monday June 9, 2003 @07:22AM from the i-only-play-him-on-tv dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an ESCmag feature interviewing Jonathan Sale, the motion-capture actor for Tommy Vercetti in GTA:Vice City. The talk includes some illuminating details on the actual capture sessions for the Ray Liotta-voiced lead character: "The getaway car that the lawyer uses to help Tommy escape at the beginning after the coke deal goes bad was just four metal folding chairs, a Fisher-Price steering wheel (literally) and a wrestling mat covering the 'back seat' so that I didn't hurt myself jumping in."

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Re:I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 08:06 · Score: 1, Informative

if you switch to reverse view while he's in the car and look through the windshield, or if you switch to car first-person view and hit the side (drive-by) view, he's just sitting there. not even touching. the car just rocks back and forth and squeaks.
Re:I wonder by Vaevictis666 · 2003-06-09 10:48 · Score: 2, Informative

Just the cut-scenes I would imagine. There's lots of generic walking and running animations around, and if I were Rockstar I'd just reuse the ones from the original GTA3. The scenes with Tommy specifically doing acting would have been mo-capped.