Actors Lend Heavy Rain Their Voices AND Their Bodies
Heavy RainPerhaps you thought Quantic Dream wrote the story, designed the characters, and then sought out voices to go along with those characters. Well, not quite.
In reality, they got the actors and then created the characters in the story based on the hired voice talents' physical appearances. Therefore, when you're controlling Ethan Mars, Scott Shelby, Madison Paige, and Norman Jayden, you are taking control of the virtual images of Pascal Langdale, Sam Douglas, Jacqui Ainsley and Leon Ockenden respectively. If you want proof, check out CVG; they show you some photos of the actors alongside their on-screen personas in Heavy Rain. You will notice that Madison's hair is short and black while Jacqui Ainsley's hair is long and blonde but beyond that, it's the same body and face (a hot body and face, too). But the other actors are all very, very close to their virtual counterparts; Scott Shelby is Sam Douglas, for crying out loud. They also don't show you Aurélie Bancilhon, who plays Lauren Winter and again, the real and virtual version of that woman is spot-on. If you caught the tech demo featuring her some time ago, where she acts out a scene (not from the game) for an audition, you know who she is. She was also in the demo; she was the prostitute in "Sleazy Place."
When you get the game next week, you can see even more after unlocking extra content when playing. There are audition scenes for each of the four major actors, plus that tech demo for Bancilhon, and they even take you behind the scenes for motion capture. All those action scenes you see, like when Madison is attacked in her apartment? Acted out in real-time by real actors, my friends.
Related Game(s): Heavy Rain
2/18/2010 10:23:29 AM Ben Dutka
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 10:49:49 AM
However, I WILL say that the scene where Madison patches up Ethan is absolutely ADORABLE.
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Nynja
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 10:55:09 AM
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Check this out...
http://www.jacquiainsley.co.uk/
Last edited by Nynja on 2/18/2010 10:59:08 AM
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rogers71
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:14:40 PM
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Zorigo
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 3:49:16 PM
now, how do i actually not stay a pubescent nerdy virgin :D
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spiderboi
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:02:22 AM
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Zorigo
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 3:59:20 PM
Last edited by Zorigo on 2/18/2010 3:59:56 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:04:08 AM
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Qubex
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:37:07 AM
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Anyway, i expect this trend of motion capture to continue unabaited in the coming years, and getting more and more sophisticated as game design evolves, and the demand for realism marches ever forward. Having "Avatar"-like character detail is not far off - we should get there in the next 5 to 1o years... real-time in-game...
nVidia recently announced their new GF1oo series GPU. Having read the Fermi White Paper this GPU is in the order of being 8x more powerful than the current GT295 at the moment. The GF1oo has real-time dynamic tesselation modeling, allowing dynamic polygon scaling of models in real-time during gameplay using a method called displacement. In layman's terms, this new GPU can render millions of polygons per frame, rather than just a million or two.
Uncharted 2 does about 1 to 1.4 million polygon triangles per frame, pushing the RSX close to maximum... The GF1oo will do this 5x or more... Heavy Rain in 5 years time would look like a movie basically... and Maddi would look even hotter...
Q!
"i am home"
Last edited by Qubex on 2/18/2010 12:10:46 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:38:36 AM
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fuk u
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:58:52 AM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:02:39 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:29:04 PM
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i know u got heavy rain kit about a month b4 us. have you gotten your gow3 kit yet?
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:43:31 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:52:40 PM
this guy AGAIN
hehehehehehehe
Last edited by inkme101 on 2/18/2010 12:54:39 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:54:08 PM
i can see it now
ben: ok arnold if you get gow3 i get heavy rain
arnold: sure ben that seems fair
but who gets ff13?
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Zorigo
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:01:07 PM
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inkme101
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:42:39 PM
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phudge_supreemz
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 1:38:43 PM
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Zorigo
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:01:40 PM
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BikerSaint
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 1:41:38 PM
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And Jacqui Ainsley should be crowned sex kitten for this decade.
Last edited by Ben Dutka PSXE on 2/18/2010 4:42:09 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:43:53 PM
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Mother of God.
...I need a girlfriend or something.
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BikerSaint
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 6:46:14 PM
LOL, do you watch all her commercial reels there too?
They were great(and "SMOKING HOT)"!
Man, Madison's Sexy(prefer long-hair redheads), but now that I caught a good whiff of Ainsley, I SO wish Cage had put her in HR instead.
And after checking out all of Ainsley's site, there's just no way that Madison's bod even match's up close with that 5'9" long, legged stunner.
(not that I'm saying Madison's just a virtual 1-nighter either though).
Last edited by BikerSaint on 2/18/2010 6:56:14 PM
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Shams
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 7:18:24 PM
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 8:19:20 PM
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BikerSaint
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 8:52:34 PM
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I don't know, but being an Alien & all,
I'll bet that you just might like to plant one big long sloppy face-hug(ger) on this babe!
Last edited by BikerSaint on 2/18/2010 8:56:18 PM
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___________
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:41:58 AM
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dam, and i was hoping to finish that before i start the game since its a prequel.
just seems weird playing a game, than playing a prequel.
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OriginalSin
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:55:15 AM
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Most of you picked Chloe from U2... anyone ready to change their mind?
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___________
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:10:28 AM
o wait, loose the mascara than chloe all the way.
nothing more scary than a hot chick who looks like a clown.
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LimitedVertigo
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:12:08 AM
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spiderboi
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 7:35:26 AM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 10:20:58 AM
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Imagi
Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 12:59:29 PM
I would take the Virtual form for Chloe as long as she did not talk (although I am from the U.K I don't get on with her voice), but the real life actor of Elena. If that makes sense in this sick virtual/real life make believe get together.
Sorry, Madison is left holding the camera ;)
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OriginalSin
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 2:34:48 AM
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http://www.jacquiainsley.co.uk/
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 10:21:14 AM
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phudge_supreemz
Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 3:57:11 PM
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DeathOfChaos
Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:54:44 AM
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DeathOfChaos
Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:53:19 AM
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Scarecrow
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Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 10:46:35 AM
Yes and I have not played it
I can see right through everything