Gaming company to make CGI movies, TV shows
Cory Bergman February 11th, 2007
My absolute favorite game right now — a major time suck recently — is Ubisoft’s Rainbow 6 Las Vegas for the Xbox 360. The realism is nearly lifelike, and it pops on a HDTV screen in surround sound. Well, now Ubisoft is investing some serious coin into an effort to produce CGI movies, or movies with digital actors, which is basically an extension of what they’re already doing on the gaming front. Ubisoft will first focus on short films — the first will run 8 minutes and will be distributed online. “We’ll insert product placement in the short films so we can monetize them,” said Ubisoft CEO and co-founder Yves Guillemot. “Our goal is to work more closely with Hollywood studios and talent so we can eventually make movies at the same time we create the games.” Smart. Ubisoft also says it will start producing CGI TV shows soon, as well.
You can build your own character in Rainbow 6 Las Vegas with just about every conceivable detail, making up 15 million possibilities. Or you can snap a couple photos of your face and have it transplanted on your character.
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1. Anonymous | February 11th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Other companies have practically perfected the art of type-to-speech by having a voiceover artist record a bunch of samples and then using those samples to generate whole new words. If you combined these two technologies, you could create movies, TV shows, even online newscasts without needing to pay any live talent at all.
2. thedetroitchannel | February 12th, 2007 at 6:33 am
monsieur bergman, would you give us an update on your wedding plans?
have you and the little lady set a date yet?
i hope for your sake you have; “a major time suck” sounds great so long as there aren’t OTHER MORE PRESSING issues, know what i mean?
if not, look for your little lady to assume a character in your custumizable game. yes, that’s her standing over by the tv… with her foot tapping on the floor!
cheers!
3. LR fiancee | February 12th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Detroit — I’ll answer the wedding-related questions. We’re getting married on April 21 of this year. The wedding is 99% planned and despite Cory’s addiction to this game, he’s been more than willing to talk wedding stuff and make decisions with me.
I already have a character in the game. It’s not tapping my foot near the tv - it’s stomping on the floor at 1am in the bedroom just above the living room.
4. thedetroitchannel | February 12th, 2007 at 9:31 am
all the best to the both of you lovebirds!
5. Mike Stranger | March 11th, 2007 at 6:02 am
God site. Thanks!
6. Floroskop | March 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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