We have a camera that's recording all the facial animations so right there, because you're capturing a true actor's performance, and the level of quality is raised instantly.'īéland said that Ubisoft faced the problem of needing someone who could do 'not only the voice but also had the physicality that Sam Fisher has'. 'So we had one actor doing the body, the voice and the face. 'The difference between motion capture and performance capture is that with performance capture, you're capturing everything at the same time.

'On Blacklist we knew that we wanted to raise the bar of our scripted events, of our cinematics, and to do that we knew we had to go to performance capture,' he said. Ubisoft chose a new voice actor for Sam Fisher because Splinter Cell: Blacklist is the first in the series to rely so heavily on motion-captured performances.Ĭreative director Maxime Béland told IGN that for past games, Ubisoft used three different performances to capture the whole of Sam Fisher - a voice actor, a facial animator and a motion capture artist.

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