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jAkUp
05-09-06, 07:23 PM
From the makers of Indigo Prophecy...

http://www.quanticdream.com/pages/frameset_index.php?lg=us

It is also coming out for PC as well as PS3.

QUANTIC DREAM will be presenting a real-time demo on PLAYSTATION 3™ of its new franchise HEAVY RAIN™ on SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT OF AMERICA’s booth during E3 in Los Angeles this week.

QUANTIC DREAM, the multiple-award-winning developer of INDIGO PROPHECY™ (FAHRENHEIT™ in Europe) will unveil during this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles a new franchise entitled HEAVY RAIN™and present a technical real-time demo on Sony Computer Entertainment’s next generation PLAYSTATION 3™ console.

Called “THE CASTING”, this demo features a young actress attending to the casting of the game to get a role. It features a virtual actor expressing emotions and crying in real time 3D.
Quantic Dream casted young actress Aurelie Brancilhon and made her the first woman crying in real time 3D.

“Our objective was to recreate not only the likeness of a living actor, but its complete acting performance, in particular in its emotional dimension” says David Cage, the founder of Quantic Dream and director of Heavy Rain. “At Quantic Dream, we believe that emotion will be a key component of Next Gen games and we are heavily investing in technologies to create Virtual Actors since several years. By expanding the range of emotions video games have to offer, they will be able to reach a far wider audience. This demo is just the beginning of what can be achieved, but I hope it already shows the fascinating new possibilities this media will offer in the coming years”.


From a technical standpoint, THE CASTING features many Next Gen features including:

- Full body and facial motion capture, including eyes, pupils, fingers and tongue animation;
- Real time tears,
- Real time wrinkles on the face,
- Advanced skin shades,
- Advanced rendering features (Depth of Field, Spherical Harmonics, and High Dynamic Range).

|MaguS|
05-09-06, 10:05 PM
Great, So loved Indigo Prophecy. These guys have alot of talent! Is it a PS3 Exclusive?

RAY16
05-09-06, 10:58 PM
I'd rather have info Omikron 2, they said they were making it like a year ago and haven't made a peep since.