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Rockstar details facial animation tech behind LA Noire

Rockstar Games has give some details of the new animation technology behind the impressive facial animations in Team Bondi's LA Noire.

Motionscan is a brand new motion capture technique that Team Bondi are using to recreate facial animation to a standard never seen before in video games.

It uses an array of 32 HD cameras set around the actor in order to capture the performance in 3 dimensions at 30 frames per second.

The technology has been provided by Team Bondi's sister company Depth Analysis and will debut in LA Noire being used on over 400 actors in the game.

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