Kojima visits performance capture studio on first day of his 10-day technology trip
Hideo Kojima, Ken Imaziumi and Ayako Terashima are currently on a 10-day trip with Mark Cerny to ‘search for the newest technology’, as the famous game designer describes it.
On his first day he went to VASG (Visual Arts Service Group) in San Diego to check out the performance capture that was used for big and highly cinematic games like The Last of Us and The Order 1886. VASG is a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America aimed at assisting the developers of Sony Worldwide Studios.
“HK checking out the performance capture process used on TLOU and The Order” – Mark Cerny
“Visited VASG. Exposed the newest tech, as performance capture & photogrammetry etc that I’m interested in.” – Hideo Kojima Twitter
“Hideo Kojima today.” – Ayako Terashima
“With people at VASG, and Sir Galahad.” – Hideo Kojima
“Did some facial scans just because reasons. HK, meet Cyber-HK!” – Mark Cerny
“We saw a performance capture demo at VASG, they’ve done Uncharted and many SCE titles.” Ken Imaizumi
Afterwards, they traveled to Los Angeles where Kojima paid a visit to some of his friends to inform them about his new studio Kojima Productions: JJ Abrams, the producer and director of the recent Star Wars movie and Kyle Cooper of Prologue, a famous title sequence designed who has worked on several Metal Gear games.
Source: Mark Cerny Twitter, Hideo Kojima Twitter, Ayako Terashima Twitter, Ken Imaizumi Twitter
“Kojima Today”, by Ayako Terashima, 2016. In this stunning piece of postmodern art, Terashima boldly addresses catharsis that follows the frustration of the shackled artist, held back by conventions of old institutional powers, while at the same time referring to Edvard Munch’s most famous work.
Fucking awesome!
Seriously happy to Kojima in good spirits.
Everyone else in the photo:
Notice me senpai!
xD
:)))
He’s angry, no mercy
Good to see Kojima like that. Good photos.This is a good article. This is good.
Isn’t it?
yep ^^
Hideo looks happy. Good for him after all the crap of the last year.
it’s so great to see kojima free again! if he pours all this good energy he’s got now into his next game we’re in for a real treat.
Kojima looks right at home in a mo-cap studio sitting on a director’s chair. He was very involved with the mo-cap in the mgs games and has always praised studios that used the technology.
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Seeing Kojima this cheerful brings tears in my eyes. Can’t fucking wait to see what masterpiece he creates next!!!
Freed from the parasites at Konami, he’s teamed with Sony and returned to nanomachine glory
Everything to Kojima so far is nothing new here really. Performance capture process he already know since Ground Zeroes.
I think the most important part is that Kojima will use VASG for it’s new game. He has the money and support from Sony, but he does not have resources and it’s own Motion capture studio so this is a good thing.
Glad to see Kojima doing his best. It will be interesting to see what Kojima will explore next. Personally I’m interested if Cerny will provide KojiPro with tools and the engine. Maybe they will offer hardware assistance. Maybe Cerny’s “Knack” team will help the development.
damn this is great!
what i take from this is that Sony will put a lot of money on the table for Kojima’s project, which is great since the sales of that first game will let him establish his own studio easily. and i would also guess that the first game will look great, seems he’ll have some good technology for this project, it makes me so happy to see Kojima like this after all the stuff from last year.
No longer restricted from the likes of the higher ups at Konami. We’re in for a wild ride, folks.
How kojima reacted when the new CEO told him the new business plan
http://youtu.be/B5N3OQklFEU
Great show
❤____❤ Sir Galahad !!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤❤
Imagine one day:
“Order 1886 sequel confirmed,directed by Hideo Kojima”
JJ isn’t just the producer, he’s the director of Star Wars Episode VII !
Thanks for the heads-up!
I will take out this comment. ;D
Did you decided not to cover the following piece of sh.t to avoid a storm / literal war here, haha ? We had a lot and way more fancy to focus on, anyways.
I just discovered about the Metal Gear Solid 6: From Two Phantoms… “after MGS4 with Snake being much more refined in both design and how he acts” WTF is he talking about !?
xD
http://dripfeed.news/news/ninja-theory-replacing-hideo-kojima-as-lead-developer-of-metal-gear-solid-series/
I have to admit that this Tameem-bird-dropping something is particularly good at licking Takuya Kozuki’s dirty .ss with those not so cordial comments toward Kojima and the franchise, and this Rahni Tucker looks like a hysterically mad feminist escaped from asylum, instead of a correct humble and professional creative director… :/
I feel the real fear now … 🙁
And one of the writers.
This is great news. Every one who worked with him at konami in the game should just quit and Join him. They must all be eating there nails with him not there screaming “we miss you kojimaaaa”
“There new guys want Us to make mobile games and pachinko machines”
Kojima lost his FOX engine… then fuck it now has full economic and technological support by SONY
Interesting tech ^^
Imagine if Kojima makes an star wars game, I mean from what we’ve seen so far it’s gonna probably be a sci-fi game and probably set in space and we’ve seen Kojima share stuff from star wars. I know is like a dream but just imagine if that happened.
Hmmm, maybe Hideo is actually making the second film in the new Star Wars Anthology “Rogue One”
He is making the boba fett movie i suppose boba fett the badass
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MGSV have probably the best running animation ever in videogames. Other animatons like crouching are the best too.
Cant wait to see what kind of game Hideo Kojima will make with technology like that and help from Sony.
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