The Downgrade of Facial Animations in Ubisoft Games is insane

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Star Wars: Outlaws has just been released and in this Video I wanted to compare to some older Ubisoft Games which had very good facial animations. I am quite surprised to how bad these new animations look like, it's almost as if no effort was put into those cutscenes

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Correction* 2:07 Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag was released in 2013

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NikTek

3D Animator here, This was probably done the cheapest way possible using AI or some plugin that automatically moves the jaw up and down depending on the phonetic. Hell, it doesnt even look like they made the appropriate mouth shapes properly. There is no love for the craft in this game.

Wernimations

Their eyes never move and also they never blink. 💀

i_cri_evertim

This was supposed to be Ubisoft's *AAAA* experience. What a joke.

young

Things you can't unsee after notice for the first time:
-They don't blink
-The lips synchronization is wrong

simp-johnson

One of my friends was a former Ubisoft employee and a designer in scene direction back in 2017. The reason for his departure from the company was due to staff cuts, especially in the area of mocap and Cinematography, mainly because Ubisoft had begun to massively use AI software that generates these scenes and facial animations more quickly and cheaply. This It could explain why facial animations and cutscene direction have declined so much in the last few years. I even heard that they hardly invest in mocap at all these days.

martinalvarez

Ubisoft is making sure we’re okay with not owning their games, because nobody is going to buy this shit.

ameno

EA: My face is tired
Ubisoft: My face is numb

fara.r.

they have the balls to charge people $70 to $120 or the $17 subscription...

redozmasoma

0:10 While you are at it, you might want to also find someone who can rig your face.

TechSY

To this day the scene between Arno and Elisie when he talks to her about the brotherhood in AC Unity blows my mind. They are talking alright, but then they aren't. And there is a whole conversation happening in their expressions, in her expressions, in her eyes. And then in the way he looks at her. It's so gripping and raw. And the whole game is full of scenes like this, because somebody clearly passionate worked on this. To this day I saw no other game on that level of animation mastery, not even the Witcher 3 that people once obsessed over so much had that level of facial expressions. And now we're here. It's tragic, really.

KhadiPlays

AC Unity came out unfinished, unoptimized, glitchy, had time boosters and micro transactions in a single player experience. The damage it did to the Assassin’s Creed brand and Ubisoft’s credibility was catastrophic.
And somehow it is better than what Ubisoft is doing today.
Let that sink in.

privatehudson