Neil Newbon & Devora Wilde: Mo-capping whilst pregnant! Astarion & Lae'zel In Baldur’s Gate 3

[@Trymie98]

Guy: “Just voice acting” Neil & Devora: So you have chosen death….

[@ВладиславБулаев-л3э]

Such a Lae'zel thing to do ha-ha! Love Dev ♥️

[@thearcanamodernau8130]

As someone who's never had children, Dev is badass for be working right before giving birth. Pregnancy is freaking tough. Also, I like how they point out that "voice acting" is just acting. I attended a voice acting workshop a while ago and the teacher kept repeating that to us.

[@givebackmybreadsticks]

you dont need to say "as a person who-" your opinion is a valid contribution without prefacing it

[@Daelyah]

​@@givebackmybreadsticks Unfortunately, KZbin comments is a wild frontier, still, and they may be trying their best to minimize getting hate for their perspectives.

[@coops1992]

xD There are women who even do powerlifting while pregnant so this doesn't seem that extreme.

[@qxxnvlog2685]

As someone who has, yes she's honestly baddass

[@qxxnvlog2685]

​@coops1992 my friend does! She's due in 3 weeks and still going every morning!

[@GameHogGames]

Just to clarify for people who pointed it out, i said "just voice work" off the back of us talking about performance capture. It was meant to mean "instead of performance as well" but comes across like I'm devaluing voice acting, which i can assure you I'm not as im also a Voice Actor (although not as accomplished or decorated as Neil or Devora) and know how tough it is! I even went on to say that people only hear the voice, they dont see how much physicality and acting goes on in front of the mic! Ill be sure to word it more clearly going forward though! Glad you all enjoyed the panel! 😁

[@MadameZoosh]

I think the reason why many people think the characters are based off the actors is exactly that what Neil mentioned. Since they used a lot of their facial expressions from mocap, it's easy to see similarities. The technology behind it is just amazing and I can't wait to see how this will develop within the next 10/20 years. The downside is that a lot of people can't separate the actors from the characters anymore and things get weird. But then again... delusional fans in need of a reality check have always been a thing. Oh yeah and of course Dev is a badass! xD

[@hissing3904]

how is it a delusional question lol It's not that unreasonable for a character to resemble their actor, have you seen Neil's detroit character? Gith are just not conventionally attractive so the comparison sounds rude

[@lili1160]

@@hissing3904 no the problem isn't fans finding similarities between the irl cast and the in game characters, it is the fans who are going to talk to/about the actor as if they are actually their character and may say very innapropriate stuff. that's why we should always dissociate both the character and the actor at a certain degree, as they are their own person and shouldn't have to put up with fans who sexualize the shit out of them without considering the actors' feelings edit : i'm not fluent in english so my bad if there's any mistakes

[@parkranga]

I love Neil's look of disapproval at the that weird comment at 1:20

[@DaDude2011]

Alwaya love having Astarion and Lae’zel in the same party!

[@Nekonix36]

I think "just voice work" is more impressive because you don't get to rely on mannerisms and expressions to communicate for you.

[@godlymajins]

Both are have good points, thx

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

That's what Tom Kenny once said I believe. "Voice acting is like acting with your hands tied behind your back"

[@la912]

@@ComedyLoverGirl Well, many of them do a lot of gestures behind the booth, like they said in 2:39. Coming from experience, that comes naturally.

[@roramoya]

This is what I mean when I say Devora Wilde is a githyanki and I mean that in the best way imaginable

[@JaySwag77]

I had no idea Dev was so badass, that's awesome!

[@agirlnamedbrett.]

they are both adorbs.

[@Tuilelen]

This makes me want a video game that lets us roleplay being a heavily pregnant adventurer that suddenly has their water break mid-adventuring XD

[@jinxcrafter]

Could be fun in a DnD session too, for that matter

[@happyninja42]

I think the closest to this I've personally seen in a video game, is in Farcry New Dawn. There is a mission where you have to drive a lady giving birth to the local human settlement. It's pretty funny but it's mostly just the woman and her husband's panicked dialogue in the back of the truck while you drive it and have panicked quips.

[@Nyghtgirl27]

@@happyninja42I think that’s Far Cry 5

[@happyninja42]

@@Nyghtgirl27 Was it 5? I could've sworn it was New Dawn. I know it's the same map I just thought it was after everything went to shit. I don't remember the fine details of those 2 games that much.

[@arianabridges9412]

i used to be an adventurer like you until my water broke

[@88Atwood88]

Dev and Neil is too beautiful.. In and out ❤‍🔥❣

[@crabapple1974]

I feel almost all character models are influenced partly by the voice actors. In other games they look completely different but in BG3 I feel they made them look like their actors. Which is fair actually since it is so much more than just doing the voice.

[@Shenanakins]

theyre not. Definitely not Astarion, confirmed by the character artist (stephanie chafe) who has said that astarion wasn't based on anyone. she just chose "elven traits" that she thought would make an interesting face. Neil just looks like him by pure coincidence, or excellent casting. Stephen Rooney (who created astarion) said that he wasnt sold on astarion's look at first but then they cast neil and showed him his picture and he was like "oh no its actually great." and that neil looks more like astarion (in his head) than astarion does.

[@soulous6001]

I heard she was the first to finish all her work

[@sunshineeee]

While I totally get this perspective(it seems to come from a place of getting a lot of blowback from the wider entertainment industry abt voice acting), voice acting work has a specific skillset that takes a lot of work to hone. Just acting work isn’t necessarily transferable to VA work, we’ve seen this a million times with famous actors getting stunt cast into voice work or projects that involve at least some part of VA work, and them being shit at it. That’s why it was so surprising for people when Bradley Cooper voiced Rocket(Guardians of the Galaxy), and it was genuinely great work, great VOICE work. Those are just my thoughts, but I definitely think many perspectives are needed to open a broader convo-as the VA community is so vast. /gen /nm /pos Add-on: Not to mention VA work also involves character voices! While other acting work may just be about developing other genersl character aspects. VA work is expanding and changing, as we see with including more mocap work. Obviously with mocap it has all aspects of performance, so as that develops it’s important to be able to have conversations about certain pockets of this work as well, though it’s also its own type of work honestly. They’re all specific skills. /gen /neu

[@arisily]

I'm familiar with most tone indicators, but what does /pos mean? And /neu? All I know that "pos" would mean is "piece of shit" or "point of sale."

[@sunshineeee]

@@arisily ! /pos is positive and /neu is neutral! They’re for connotations and overall tone, there’s also /neg to insinuate negativity. I usually use it to make sure that my posts don’t come off ‘antagonistically’ as people usually like to assume things have subtext when they don’t. Even now when using it I still read it and laugh bc it autofills in my head as “piece of shit” lmao so no worries, thanks for asking ! /gen

[@andrew-song]

Agreed, I see where Neil is coming from, but acting and voice acting are as much different as they are alike.

[@Bexar2204]

Devora is a beast!

[@bubblewrap42]

the red light near them (whatever it is) makes them look like tomatoes 😭😭

[@SpiritOfLion]

Dam that sound hurts my brain

[@Psycho250785]

That’s a tadpole…

[@lyianx]

0:22 If only SungWon 'ProZD' Cho had this mind set about voice over work instead of demanding the actor match the character.

[@elseggs6504]

​@wyltedleaves At some point it just becomes downright silly. Nobody is gonna fault Christopher Judge for not being ethnically greek like Kratos. In fact no one seemed to care a Puerto Rican was voicing a Japanese-Brazilian character. Sure, go ahead and hire more people from all shapes and backgrounds since youd be missing on genuine talent otherwise, but dont get tied up on ethnicity on a medium like that

[@SerPounceToebeans]

What's the name of that Japanese kimono that Neil is wearing? I want it!!!

[@MimiKon36]

It looks like a haori, type of jacket

[@Tamaki742]

Some casual haori jacket.

[@EmiMac20]

It’s called a happi jacket. 😊