WEBVTT - The Voice of Neil Ellice 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.360 Hi, Christie, Hey Will, how are you? I'm good? Why 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.760 are you back in the room of no color and 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.119 no paintings and no pictures. You're back in the room 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.119 of someone's holding you captive somewhere. You know, I don't 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.960 think it really looks that bad. I think I think 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.800 that I think clear when I don't have a bunch 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.880 of stuff behind me, much less a green screen. So 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.439 keeping it very neutral. Okay, Well, it's certainly okay, but 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.200 to be fair, baby steps because I actually should probably 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.159 sound proof of this. But it's also kind of a 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.199 guest room too, so I don't really have like the 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.800 perfect office yet. So it's but it's going well. I mean, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.680 you know, I've I've just hosted my first housewarming party, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.920 lash six year old birthday. It was a nightmare before 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.440 Christmas party. There was a scene I thought you, I 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.080 thought you're gonna say it was a nightmare, Like, how 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.600 did it go? It was a Nightmare's how it went? Yeah? 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.200 Oh no, no, it wasn't. I worked really hard at it, 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.320 which I should probably try to work more are on 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.120 soundproofing my office. But it was it was a really 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.720 lovely time for my little girl, and um, she's actually 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.240 birthday all So for what people don't know about you 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.080 is you for your kid's birthdays, you go all out. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.720 You are like you've told, no, you've told. I mean 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.800 we've had this conversation and Brendan and I have had 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.039 this conversation where it's like, you don't do anything small 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.520 when it comes to your kid's birthday parties. Am I correct? Yeah? No? 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.679 I I mean I don't want to. I don't want 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.319 to brag. But idea, I why quite a lot of things, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.319 and I have like a big vision. And so with 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.399 Nightmare before Christmas, I really needed to make sure before 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.119 we like lit the candle. I was like, are you sure, honey, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.280 that this is your new like fixation because my daughter 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.080 gets really passionate and she was like she was like, no, no, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.000 night wemb before Christmas. I love the movie and like 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.960 I love the movie too. So when you have this 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.080 like animated movie that you grew up with and you're 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.560 so passionate about, and you know, Wednesday Adams just came 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.800 out and Tim Burton is alive and well and the 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.160 aesthetic is very like on trend, I was like, let's 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.640 go for it, let's have fun, and I did. Ide 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.400 I wy a snake if you have you seen the 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.560 movie remember of course yeah, sure, of course there was 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.840 a snake that eats a tree. And I actually ordered 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.160 on Amazon like air conditioning, like circular pipe and like 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.000 Fabrick and like I will I will send you pictures. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.959 But I'm went all out and I should probably be 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.720 soundproofing my studio, but here we are with no I 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.919 mean again, it's it's it's I'm it's not even about 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.040 the sound as much as the aesthetic of the look 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.520 you sound good. You just you can be in any town, USA, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.560 any room USA right now. That might be a good thing. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.600 I think exactly because if I go somewhere, you know, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.920 I've heard you. I miss you too, But I've heard 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.160 your kid's birthday parties are so epic that, like you, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.360 like even adults wanted like I can't why didn't you 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.280 invite me? Like why didn't you write me six year 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.480 old birthday party? You know? The parents, the parents did 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.320 have a good time. I think, like you can tell 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.680 one of parties good when how how quickly people text 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.480 you after the party? Right that makes sense? Or if 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.600 they text you at all? Thank you? And and like 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.480 us last night people got home and texted me right away, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.520 so I was like, oh, this is a success for sure. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.520 But it was honestly, like I piggyback off of my 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.079 children's birthday parties. So this was not only was it 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.840 a housewarming right with all of my Christmas decorations inside, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.480 but then I had a purple Christmas tree outside and 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.160 everything else out there. Yeah. I mean, I'm just wondering, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.760 So how much of it do you think is the 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.160 parents texting you going like, oh that was amazing, And 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.679 how much of it was the car ride home the 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.640 parents going like she ever going to like she's ruined 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.000 birthday parties for our kids any kind of party? Are 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.600 you kidding me? How are we ever supposed to follow them? 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.640 That's kind of you know what. I think. I think 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.600 that the our our little community of of parents are 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.920 a little extra. So I think that like we all 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.760 piggyback off each other, just going for it because I 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.880 think that once their kids get a little bit older 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.520 and they're not why sin so many animated movies and 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.560 they're not such like big franchises that have all these 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.520 things at your disposal to either create or purchase online. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.920 I just don't think that we'll be doing this like, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.160 I don't know. Once my kids like that, you think, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.640 so yes you will know you Yes you will. I 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.880 guarantee you will. She's gonna, you know, like the like 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.599 a twelve or thirteenth birthday party. You're gonna go all 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.320 out and it won't matter what she's into. It's gonna 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.040 be like, oh, I'm really into what to name it? 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.600 But you know it doesn't matter what. I mean. I'm 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.680 into high school musical. You're gonna be like, well, then 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.919 I've got to recreate the entire class. You know, my 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.760 friends like from the movie To Come exactly. You're the 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.000 person who's like, oh, it's a nightmare for Christmas, I 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.760 gotta call Timber. You're like that person, um mamma troized. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.520 I don't know a ton of people, but I know 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.400 some very cool animated voices speaking of here on I 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.200 hear voices today. There you go, going back to I 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.200 hear voice brought it right around. I mean, I don't 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.800 know if my daughter is going to be into modern 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.479 warfare for today's guests, but you never know, she could 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.000 get into the gaming, you know. So one of the 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.279 things that is so cool about gaming, I think is 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:09.039 that it's really the the the um Uh. I don't 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.240 know what you would say today to not be um 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.520 kind of uh dismissive. I don't know if it's the 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.920 female side the how how you would say it. But 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:23.760 the women, girls, uh, younger people are are loving video 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.680 games and they're really the the the um female side 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.480 is really growing because there's a lot of women that 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.920 are headlining some of these video games and are you know, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.760 huge important characters and a lot of these video games. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.800 So I think there's a real chance that your your 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.000 girls could get into this. The world's are so immersive 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.800 and they're kind of taking over for movies in a way. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.120 I mean, that's one of the things I want to 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.479 talk to our our guest about today is it's the 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:56.039 the um I P that he's involved in. He's ridiculously successful. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.080 It's like the numbers are are insane when you hear 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.239 about them. So for this whole new generation of both 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.240 boys and girls, men and women, he they not bind here. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:10.000 Everybody everybody's loving video games, UM, and I think that 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.000 is something that's that's cool and growing. Which is strange 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.760 because you and I have talked so much about how 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.159 like they added the X button on the controller and 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.480 I was out, like too much for me, that's me, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.560 that's me too. I never And that's the other thing 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.760 Piano to like, you have to be a very like 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.800 your brain has to work in a certain way, or 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.839 you just have to train it and try and fail 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.280 enough to where you can enjoy playing the game. But 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.560 for me, it was I did game Boy and then 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.119 my and my brother had Sega and then I tried 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.400 the controller. Thing just really really generally messed me up. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.280 So that's how I was when they so I the 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.880 last new system I bought because I was like a 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.920 video gamer back in the day. Yeah, like we were 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.600 on the cutting edge, right, I think, yeah, you went 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.279 into I got as far as PlayStation two and again 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:02.479 that's when all of a sudden it was like, no, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:03.800 you need to do the buttons on the top and 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.080 the button behind the control and I was like, mmmmmmmm 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.040 too much to really hard, that's really cool, It's difficult. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.240 Brendan actually really is a gamer. So my husband is 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.880 a gamer and he doesn't let it rest the mind 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.800 for it he has, but he has the mind for it. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.200 I do. I do. Brendan has the mind to like 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.360 not only take in the entire story but also to 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.000 have that kind of the mathematical side you kind of need, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.160 in my opinion, to have all the buttons going at 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.000 the same time. He seems to have, especially because he 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.440 was trained in the Marines and they train a lot 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.520 of military people. We should speak about this to him 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.200 and if he's had any you know, I remember going 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.840 overseas and playing you know, well at the time, it 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.480 was we, but there was plenty of other guys, um 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.800 that we're playing you know, Modern Warfare and like things 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.680 like that, and they were and they were all and 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.880 they were gaming and it was very cathartic for them 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.400 and it kept them sort of like in in reality 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.560 but also on step removed from reality. It was very 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.000 good for them. So it would be really cool to 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.800 hear our guests, Well, you saw all of these call 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.160 you heard stories about these call of duty teams that 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.000 were actual Navy seals that we're playing this game as 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.280 a team where it was it was one of those 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:15.960 things where it's like, wait, you do this for a living, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.760 and what do you do to relax? Or a team 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.920 on call of duty? Like so it's insane, but I'm 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.320 I'm so I'm very excited because this you know, our 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.280 our guest today has obviously done a lot in the 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:30.040 in the voiceover world, but is primarily known for video games. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.200 And I think that, you know, we've talked to Troy Baker, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.199 and we've talked to other people that kind of kind 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.400 of run run the gamut of of all of the 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.640 voiceover world, but our guest today, But the is Troy 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.640 the face, Like, is his body and face also in 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.760 Yeah for some for some of them. Yeah, And again, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.040 I I just know he's a huge video gamer. I 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.480 know Laura Bailey is a huge, huge game voiceover actor. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.320 So but you know, we're very excited to have today's guests. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.760 Who do we have here today? On I hear voices 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.319 it's Neil us is joining us. We cannot wait. Thank 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.000 you so much. Hey, how are you? I'm good, Neil, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.199 how you doing good? Thank you? Nice to meet you 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.480 both you as well, Thank you so much for joining 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.280 us today. We've been really excited. We were talking so 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.760 our little pre show chatter here was talking about how 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:21.480 we were all we both considered ourselves gamers until the 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.800 introduction of the third and fourth button on the controller. Yeah, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.920 at which point it got very confusing. Um, but this 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.640 was also kind of as as big as video games were. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.640 This was before it's kind of become the new movie 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.760 for lack of of a better word. I mean, it's 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:46.040 it's taken over, you know, media everywhere. So I'm just curious. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.480 Were you let's start here, Were you a gamer when 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:53.040 when you were growing up? Yeah? Absolutely? Um, I mean 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:58.640 I had everything from uh, I think when I was 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.000 a kid, my sister hadn't a I have an older sister, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.960 she had an Amiga remember that nice of first got started, um, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.080 and then everything all the way up to to an 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:13.800 Xbox UM for one Christmas. So um, yeah, I mean, look, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.200 they're immersive. I totally. I can't hear you. I mean, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.440 I mean I was once. I once played Gears of 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.720 War for fourteen hours straight. See that's interesting. That's very 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.200 very interesting. Like what you were saying about how it's 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.160 the new movie Will, but like what when we and 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.200 we've also talked to you know, because um, Will is 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.800 very big in D and D and the culture. Yeah, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.840 do you have you ever played D and D? I well, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.840 I'm in the middle of writing something right now and 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.439 I just learned the term true neutral. Ah there you go. Okay, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.280 are you a true neutral will. No, I'm I'm a 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.240 good I'm well, yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm more of 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.559 a uh yeah. It's hard to say which character I play. Um, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.160 there's some Sometimes I'm a chaotic evil, but a lot 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.640 of times I'm I'm closer to the Yeah, what I 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.160 am as a nerd uh Neil and I love? Aren't 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.960 you Empire? Aren't you an Empire guy for the Star Wars? Yeah? 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.480 I thought you were an Empire. Well no, I just 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.680 I've always said that, you know, if you ever got 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.480 as an actor. You know, everyone wants to play a Jedi, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:21.880 and I would love to do that as well. But 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.160 when I look down in my hand, I want to 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.240 see a red lightsaber. So what about Reven? What's completely 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.560 interrupting Christie's flow by then that's fine. This is this 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.640 show is called I Hear tangents, So don't even worry 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.840 about it. Get on. Maybe you're a darky then that 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.600 could possibly. Yes, there's I mean again, a little bit 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.240 of good, a little bit of buy you can you 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.200 never know when the blade's gonna pop out. Is it 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.760 gonna be blue, is gonna be red? You never know? 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.240 That's I kind of love that there's also the whole 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.160 all right for fully nerding out here, there's also the 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.160 whole uh side that really the dark the dark side 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.640 isn't necessarily dark. It's just another way of looking at 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.880 and utilizing the forest. So there are people that claim 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.720 that being a syth doesn't necessarily mean you're bad, especially 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:09.800 back in your Saber Neutral. None of these characters believe 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.200 they're bad. I don't think even General Shepherd believes he's bought. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.920 I think that's true. But there, you know, that's a 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.480 question is do you know, uh, do you know your 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.240 own insanity? Is the is a whole another podcast will 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.280 get into at another time. Well no, but I also 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.000 think you're talking about nuances in how we approach characters 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.880 and and in terms of the character that you're portraying. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.360 I mean, you're literally the face of this franchise. Can 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.320 you can you walk us into walk us through that process? Well, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.400 Ghost is kind of the face of the franchise, which 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.640 I think it was really smart because Samuel Um just 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.320 smashes it. But yeah, I mean soap is uh for 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.720 I think the majority of levels in the game, Um, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.080 you see soap both in uh cinematic seems to your 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.600 point Christie Rights by cinematic game. Um, you see him 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.200 in a cinemas, but you're also playing as soap. So 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.199 I the work I did was a cross performance capture 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.679 in the cut scenes cinemas as well as still wearing 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.160 the suit and still with all the other actors, but 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.680 my helmet camera is off and instead they convert my 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:26.080 helmet into a camera. So there's bits in the level that, Um, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.319 they get to a certain point and Graves might say, well, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.080 we're gonna have to bust the store open, Soap, get 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.760 on it, and then the player. If the player lingers, 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.600 Graves won't nag him, and we shot that. That's me 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.320 standing there. They're all in the peacap suits with the 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.280 camera is acting, but I'm in the peacap suit but 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.840 kind of like the camera, you're the cameraman. Yeah, for 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.800 that for those pieces. So it's it's very strange when 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.280 someone's nagging you to do something and you just have 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.000 to stand there because they have to get their four 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.520 nags out and they have to it gradually more angry 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.600 and you just have to take it. It's the strangest 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:18.400 thing for our fans who are unfamiliar with how to 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.760 how you actually go about creating one of these video 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:28.280 games nowadays. So Peak, you're wearing an entire motion capture suit. Correct, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.560 what does it made up? Just like Spandex? Oh yeah, no, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.680 it's spandex and velcro. It's an evil combination. You are 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.880 leaving nothing to the imagination. It's almost impossible accent. We 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.000 had an issue because, um, on top of that, you 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.400 do actually have a tactical best like soldiers wear, but 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.640 it's not a tactical best. It's there to hold all 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.640 of the electronic equipment that goes for sound and the 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.520 camera that's attached to your head. So once you've got 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.400 all that on at the beginning of the day, they 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.680 calibrate you right, and then you are in that for 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.520 the next eight or nine hours. There's no there's no 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.680 because once all that gear comes off, they have to 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:12.240 calibrate it again. So you're wearing it and unfortunately, uh 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.000 I just I couldn't get comfortable in it some days. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:20.440 So I bought this chair, this reclining garden chair. Um 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.360 to the ridicule of everybody there, but really they were 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:28.600 jealous chair you have ever? Oh yeah, and it had 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.840 a level that it wasn't just a launch chair, like 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.080 at a level that we your your feet kicked out. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.400 I got a call the next day saying, don't bring 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.440 that chair in again, and I said, wow, why, I 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.520 have every right to be to be comfy. Yeah, he 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.960 says no, because that chair had reflective stripes on it, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.120 and it was you placed it within the void, within 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.680 the the volume. Sorry, and it threw off the data 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.520 for an entire's day shoot. That had to be manually 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.800 like I had to be manually unwrappled by someone because 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.520 every shot there's like a chair floating around. So anyway, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.080 that was the chair. But it's not the most comfortable stuff. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.400 You get on with it. You know, you're shooting comfortable. Yeah, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.800 you're shooting eight hours a day. Yeah, that's the basic 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.800 because there's no you know, you're Some stages call it 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.120 the volume. That's very similar to what they use it 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.160 at Star Wars for you know, the Mandalorian. Really it's 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.400 just a giant stage with a ton of sensors. Uh 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.480 and um. Yeah, I mean once you're in the suit 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.680 by nine am, that's it. You shoot until five or 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.520 five or six. Because they don't need to stop for 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.000 rain coverage. They don't need to stop for anything, it's 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.040 all inside. So and are you shooting it like a film? 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.920 I mean, are you getting pages every day and your 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.400 memorizing your dialogue and you're shooting everything just like you 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.920 would be in a shooting a film. Yeah, the sides. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.160 So the way they make games is that, um, it's 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.080 layer upon layer upon layer. So throughout the whole two years, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.719 I may worked like two or three times on the 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:11.080 same scene but bringing in different elements, right, um, But 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.960 essentially the way the flow goes like one's called the 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:18.119 alone mission. Ah. The very first day of of of 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.080 performance capture UM was straight in at the deep end 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.640 because it's a scene at the top of a level 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:29.480 where Soap, my character, Soap mc tavish is injured, he's dying, um, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.560 and he's trying to get his friends on the radio 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.280 and no one's no one's responding until one character does 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.480 and helps him through the mission. UM. So that on 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.560 that first day I got the script, maybe four or 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.680 five days before they locked the script. At that point, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.320 they've locked all the digital sets because even though you're 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.560 working in a giant space like they've built all the sets. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.160 But the guy, the the Jeff, the director, Jeff Negas 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.560 is there with a camera which doesn't look like a camera. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.720 It's called a v cam. It's just a computer. Basically. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.439 They'll point at you and if you look up at 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.639 the screens in the wall, you see your character on 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.840 the fool set. What it's already built, sanity. Yeah, they've 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.639 been working for years building these sets. And then the 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.960 actors start to come in and it's very cleverly scheduled. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.600 Right so that I'm so sorry, I'm so confused walking 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.400 to walk me through this. Okay, So the Volume, that's 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.239 your studio. It's some studios called the volume, you know, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.400 others don't. And then when you walk in, are you 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.760 looking at like little taped squares like little exes. And 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.119 they've created a makeshift like a cube for you to 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.680 sit on if you're sitting or or or if it's 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:45.119 a boat, they've taken some scaffolding, rigging, and they've they've 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.080 the wizards there that you know they have like stage hands, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.840 grips have put together kind of a boat. It's on 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.879 top of rubber tires and then they're moving it to 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.200 make it look like a boat. That's that's the that's 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.760 the most set that you will get. Okay. So it's 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.800 very very sparse. But then but then your directors shooting 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.480 you guys in real time with this like computer camera, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.199 so it's very specialized. UM and so, but then if 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:14.000 you're looking at a different uh TV, you're seeing soap 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.000 in the oh you're seeing so, you're seeing so in 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.199 a car or on a boat. So part of the 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.960 director's job is to make sure that it's with the 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.040 motion cap. There's also a motion capture director there. His 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.080 name was Matt, very talented guy. He runs the stage 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.800 and his primary on our shoot was to make sure 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:38.399 that UM that when we're playing out the scenes, that 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.240 it plays out on the digital set. So they're having 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.160 to work together to make sure that when we are 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:45.919 getting in and out of a car which is just 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.119 some scaffoldings, you know, taped together UM or a boat 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.520 that on the monitors it plays it's very precisely matched. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.600 That's crazy look that makes a d R look like, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.760 Oh man, Kyle's way is hard. I have you ever 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.920 the drenaline rush when the beeps go. I can never 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.399 get it. It's one of my favorite things in the 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.440 World's a d R. So you're shooting this thing, how 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:14.840 do you factor in that the player can control the character, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.359 so the player can can the player kind of go 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.000 off script. How do you how do you account for 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:21.879 something like that? How do you? How do you shoot 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.680 for every eventuality of what the player might do. So 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.920 the for the most part, all the levels UM and 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.639 and Modern Warfare two, you can play as a gunship, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.959 you can play as a missile and some of the levels, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.000 but for the most part you're either soap gods or 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:43.080 rudolful um. They know that stepping into it. So you'll 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.119 shoot the cinematic and then you'll go into parts of 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.280 the level where um there is interaction with the other 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:55.920 characters and basically, uh, the player yeah, pretty much can 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.960 do whatever whatever the player wants. But the artificial intelligence, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.560 it's the layer, uh, a layer upon under layer within 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.840 the game itself, will make the other characters start to 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.919 speak up and say, hey, why are you looking at 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.680 a window. There's a missile like um, and so they 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.719 start to chime into that experience. So it gradually guides 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.760 it guides the player through and then uh, you might 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.720 get to the end of a level where the first 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.200 player soap has to do something, has to punch in 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.760 a missile, code has to solve a problem, and yeah, 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.679