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shikamaru317 on 24 May 2024
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Machiavellian said:
Ryuu96 said:

Playground should take advantage of Ninja Theory's full mocap studio too.

Every studio at MS including ABK should take advantage of NT studio.  By far they are at the top of the game when it comes to their mo cap studio and production.

In the long run they'd probably be better off building a high end mo-cap studio near each of their studio clusters. The problem with using NT's studio exclusively is that you would start to accrue pretty large airfare and hotel expenses, a studio in say California like The Initiative would be needing to fly a team of mo-cap technicians (probably at least 5 of them) and the mo-cap actors halfway around the world to the UK, and then pay for hotels and everything for however long the mocap recording takes (I would guess at least a few weeks to get all animations and all actors). 

Xbox has studios clustered in a few different locations, so it would be cheaper in the long run I think to have a high-end mo-cap studio located near each cluster:

Texas

  • Bethesda Austin
  • Bethesda Dallas
  • id Software

Los Angeles California

  • The Initiative
  • inXile
  • Obsidian
  • Blizzard's main headquarters
  • Infinity Ward
  • Treyarch
  • Solid State

San Francisco California

  • Double Fine
  • Sledgehammer Games (assuming Xbox builds them a new headquarters there, they closed their headquarters earlier this year and they were said to be on work from home until the end of 2024)

UK

  • Rare
  • Playground
  • Ninja Theory

Maryland

  • Bethesda Game Studios
  • Zenimax Online

Washington

  • World's Edge
  • Turn 10
  • Undead Labs
  • 343

The remainder of their main studios and satellite studios are spread out all over the place, Wisconsin (Raven), Ireland (Demonware), Quebec (Beenox), Montreal (Compulsion), Sweden (Machine), France (Arkane), Poland (Elsewhere), Shanghai (Activision Shanghai), Vancouver (The Coalition), Albany (Blizzard Albany), Boston (Blizzard Boston), New Orleans (inXile New Orleans) so not alot you can do with those other than flying elsewhere or renting out a local mo-cap studio or using a lower end one within their own building.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 24 May 2024