Kakadu18 said:
There's no "but still". Mo-cap is completely different and is obviously done over a longer time frame. It's not just VA, it's full body acting. There's is no reason for someone who just needs to speak the lines into a microphone to take more than a few days. What exactly did you expect to take that long? |
It's definitely not "just speak the lines into a microphone", that's selling the whole profession short. Anyway. It can obviously take more than a few days, but it can take as little as an afternoon, depending on a few factors, namely how many voice lines there are to record, how demanding the VA director is with the delivery of those lines, and how organized the project is as a whole. Assuming the two latter points are at the same level for Bayonetta 1 and 3, I still think it unreasonable to think it'd only take 4 days to record Bayonetta 3 as it likely has significantly more lines.
And by the way, while the actors for Guardians of the Galaxy did do mocap for specific cutscenes, the vast majority of their voice lines did not include mocap. Don't know the exact numbers or anything but based on what you see and hear in the game it's probably over 90% VA-only. It didn't take them years because of mocap, it took them years because there were lots of lines and the directors were demanding with the delivery. And also because they wanted the actors to be a part of the process so they brought them in early into the project, the results of this approach are clear to see in the game.