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now I’m really really happy to be joined
today by CJ Cohen CJ is the director of
cinematics for Halo 3 just so I know
exactly where you stand what exactly do
you do with respect to cinematics what
is what is your job I’m responsible for
all of the story channels what we call
internally which is all the methods of
telling the story in the game obviously
the biggest part of that is our
letterbox cinematics and so I direct all
the animators and all the camerawork and
all the animation and the lighting and
effects and all of that on the letterbox
cinematics but then I’m also responsible
for making sure that the story across
the gameplay is being told coherently
with the story arc of the entire game
and so the dialogue is coming in over
the radio the little vignette animations
of routes torturing humans all of that
kind of falls under under my prevail
although the team is actually you know
pretty big and I and I steal people from
other disciplines to make sure the story
is being told no you guys obviously have
a very close relationship with Microsoft
and I’d like to know a bit about what
your impressions now working with
cinematics on the xbox 360 most of the
challenges was men there’s all this new
power that we have how do we best use
our time to utilize it we need higher
res characters we need higher res
textures we need to do more with our
facial animation because we’re getting
closer to our characters and the
animation on the face from Halo 2 would
just not hold up at this level of detail
all of the lipstick is happening in real
time and so if you put in a Japanese
copy of halo 3 from here up it’s all
custom animated by our animators but the
lip sync is completely running in
real-time programmatically off of the
engine and so the lipstick matches every
language that we ship in if halo 3 is a
resounding success which almost goes
without saying I mean are you guys gonna
leave us hanging when you get to the end
of Halo 3 you’ll realize that we’ve
spent a lot of time make
that these three games as a trilogy feel
really solid from start to finish the
character arcs of all the major
characters involved come to a satisfying
conclusion we’re really happy with the
trilogy as a whole we’re really happy
with this story I doubt this will be the
last game in a Halo universe
[Music]
now I’m really really happy to be joined
today by CJ Cohen CJ is the director of
cinematics for Halo 3 just so I know
exactly where you stand what exactly do
you do with respect to cinematics what
is what is your job I’m responsible for
all of the story channels what we call
internally which is all the methods of
telling the story in the game obviously
the biggest part of that is our
letterbox cinematics and so I direct all
the animators and all the camerawork and
all the animation and the lighting and
effects and all of that on the letterbox
cinematics but then I’m also responsible
for making sure that the story across
the gameplay is being told coherently
with the story arc of the entire game
and so the dialogue is coming in over
the radio the little vignette animations
of routes torturing humans all of that
kind of falls under under my prevail
although the team is actually you know
pretty big and I and I steal people from
other disciplines to make sure the story
is being told no you guys obviously have
a very close relationship with Microsoft
and I’d like to know a bit about what
your impressions now working with
cinematics on the xbox 360 most of the
challenges was men there’s all this new
power that we have how do we best use
our time to utilize it we need higher
res characters we need higher res
textures we need to do more with our
facial animation because we’re getting
closer to our characters and the
animation on the face from Halo 2 would
just not hold up at this level of detail
all of the lipstick is happening in real
time and so if you put in a Japanese
copy of halo 3 from here up it’s all
custom animated by our animators but the
lip sync is completely running in
real-time programmatically off of the
engine and so the lipstick matches every
language that we ship in if halo 3 is a
resounding success which almost goes
without saying I mean are you guys gonna
leave us hanging when you get to the end
of Halo 3 you’ll realize that we’ve
spent a lot of time make
that these three games as a trilogy feel
really solid from start to finish the
character arcs of all the major
characters involved come to a satisfying
conclusion we’re really happy with the
trilogy as a whole we’re really happy
with this story I doubt this will be the
last game in a Halo universe
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