Inside Star Citizen: Dev Diary - Performance Artist

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   [Music] ran into some Frontier Fighters last week bunch of douchebags tried to explain why I was helping the cause oh oh that's me okay sorry should read it first you're probably wondering what I'm doing here I mean besides looking like Dr Eggman these suits are not flattering anyway as part of our content-driven initiative this year we're adding a few more tools to our in-game storytelling cuz reading endless data pads is really kind of lame and because I work cheap and say yes to a lot of things I'll be playing a new role inside the persistent Universe this is Dev diary performance artist this is our performance capture

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   stage it's a little over 2,000 squ ft with more than 50 Opti track cameras we can capture up to four faces and eight performers all at the same time doing just about anything the human body can achieve from dramatic moments like this don't be that T's on me do it to even the most action filled not on my ship I've entered the station it's one of the biggest quietest and most technologically advanced performance capture stages of its kind in all of Europe bit of bad luck that not to worry though and it's located right across the way from our Manchester office in the old Granada Studios that famous facility where the

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   Beatles had their very first televised performance way back in the day okay not this room but the one next to it it's close in addition to the big fancy stage there are backstage areas as well including our face scanning room where performers are tortured for about an hour into contorting their faces into every shape you can imagine and a few you wish you hadn't the cast green room where you can sit and be intimidated by some of the incredible talent that we've had over the years as well as a number of dressing rooms normally reserved for talent but on this day this one is being held for me the person that walked in front of CR and Dave hadock at just the right moment 3 weeks ago my room has

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   pictures of the main man Mark Howell who should need no introduction to anyone watching year 12 of this show on this day my call was after lunch which usually means they wanted to get the important stuff out of the way first and expect me to waste a bunch of their time cuz I don't really know what I'm doing here I check in with everyone I'm going to try really hard not to disappoint for the rest of the afternoon folks like CJ Katie Natalie and Juan of the map crew they're responsible for tracking the body and telling me I move like an angel bilios and Scott on the facial crew and the reason that I've had to shave recently Justin and Aaron from audio who provide encouragement when my voice becomes just a bit too nasly the producer is John and Eleanor who makes certain everything gets done and the director Dave hack you know I

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   made this guy a star with or makers back in the day and now we big times me and will spend most of today telling me to tune things down because well I'm a chronic overactor now with the call time met it's time to start getting ready and that begins by going to the markering room and getting fitted for a helmet you know I'll take the XXL melan nogin please I think the sides are fine we'll put medium there uh how does it feel on the top then it's off to the dressing room to squeeze myself into what Jonathan Booth The Man Behind Jax McClary himself referred to as essentially large black condom large black condom yeah I really let this go to air let's go get yell that by Natalie next it's back to the markering room where they tell you that you've dressed yourself

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   poorly fix all of your mistakes then attach all the tracking dots to various positions testing to ensure they won't move or fall off with the various movements I'll have to do in just a few minutes and you can relax that you markered fully markered we now return to the stage where it's time to fit and adjust our helmet and camera setup here they're discussing the fact that I broke my neck over 25 years ago and it's left me with a tendency to Bob and Nod unnecessarily when talking so we're going to have to tighten this thing to insane levels to keep the expensive camera from flying all over the place now it's time to do the range of motion checks in which I get to

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   demonstrate my utter lack of flexibility and complete inability to tell my left from my right in front of everyone to see it's an important step in humbling The Chosen performer before they get to all that acting stuff in just a few minutes I would later learn that it's also necessary for technical calibration or whatever they they tried to explain it to me but in this moment I was completely convinced that this was a shame based hazing ritual and plotting my revenge on everyone in a minutes finally it's time to get a bunch of dots put on my face which I'm absolutely certain in this moment I will forget to wash off my face before returning to my desk later today now that I've been fully prepped

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   for work it's time to set up the scene in today's shoot I'll be playing an SSN news flash anchor named James Harryman this is James Harryman with an SSN news flash the brief I was given is that at 900 years in the future these are low attention span vignettes of under a minute that are hosted by a news Pro that does not get excitable or include his personal opinions in his reading of the facts basically short and with as little of himself as possible I have no idea why they came to me for this and as possible I'm being punked right now but I'm going to try really hard not to let anyone down shocking news out of the Stanton system with the recent attacks by Frontier fighters on the Invictus celebrations and in addition to news about the

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   ongoing threat of the frontier Fighters I'm also doing reports about a new threat to all human life in the verse that begins to rear its head in the upcoming Alpha 4.1 with the start of this year's B story concerning a suspected failure of regen Technologies which we'll learn more about in just a couple of weeks the UE Senate has put out a call for resources to help fund the scientific research needed to overcome the regen crisis and while I'm here they've also asked me to do some minor map only business for a squadron 42 newscaster shuffling some data pads around with my hands that's Adam Adam is here asking me if I've ever used my hands to move things before not really Adam I'm very very good at all of

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    this then lastly I'm doing a few more pickups for random NPCs you'll find in the Stanton and Pyro systems related to these ongoing narratives are you sure I can't do an imprint today I have a really important memory I just made and I don't want to lose it would you believe I used to be the darling of the community theater scene getting a little tired of these Frontier Fighters I would have been on their side if they didn't go and start attacking innocent people to prove their point now they're just another bunch of ultimately these newscasts and NPC en ERS are just some of the ways we're working to improve the storytelling of our persistent Universe including a real actor bringing another brand new character to the verse but you'll meet him and his species soon

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    enough and all of this is just one small aspect of the work being done to improve our sense of character and narrative storytelling in the persistent universe and like the ongoing bug fixes stability improvements and overall quality of life changes being made by our fantastic programmers and Engineers right now these updates will roll out in releases throughout the remainder of this year so for inside Star Citizen I'm Jared hucke thanks for letting us share the people and process of game development with you and we'll see you all here in 2 weeks with a look at the upcoming Alpha 4.1