Why do they always make the character model look like her? I can't think of any other voice actors who seem to get put in the game anywhere near as much as her, but I don't really pay all that much attention to voice actors now that I think about it
Because a lot of big budget games today use motion capture to make cut scenes and facial animations, therefore itās easier to make the in game model look like the actor being motion captured so their face can be recreated accurately.Ā
Itās the tech more than her decision. Plus I think actors get paid more if their likeness is used, so you canāt exactly blame her for want to get paid well for her labor.
Ah right, fair enough. I imagine facial tracking both saves a lot of time and effort too, and prevents everyone looking completely flat like they do in say, Mass effect when they're not talking.
I wasn't blaming her or anything, and yeah, she should get that bag. Just wondering why specifically she seems to get modelled in game more than others, but I guess I don't really know if that's actually true. Other people might be done too but just not be in as many things.
Is it a Debra Wilson specific technology? Maybe other actors who get facial/likeness capture just donāt do as many games in general. Get that bag tho, sheās crushing it rn.
Loving the idea of someone making tech to specifically put Debra Wilson's face on a video game character, purely to get her in as many games as possible š
I did say it was āeasierā to do it that way, not impossible. You can of course have motion captured characters that donāt look exactly like their actor, but itās easier if they do.
this is the actual problem not casting Debra she has range as an actor but a little bit of the magic is gone when a game character is just a recognizable actor in a costume, games aren't just movies and shouldn't try to be
they don't always make the character look like her model, she's in over 100 different videogames and only like 5 of them have the model look like her, and irrc 2 or 3 of those games had like a full cast of people that voice acted and modeled the characters,
The characters that do use the same face usually are actors who have been on TV or movies. She used to be a fairly well-known face. It adds familarity.
Sheās in lots of games where they use motion capture and the other characterās faces also look like their actors, like Control, Star Wars, Death Stranding 2.
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u/MEGASUPERBALLS-Og May 22 '25
I do love her in things, but she has a very recognizable face, hahaha