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Courtesy of Activision Beyond bringing back Captain John Price and Ghost, Infinity Ward narrative director Jeff Negus only had a rough idea of what he was looking for when he set out to cast Xbox’s upcoming “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.”
“I think our process is fairly unique in this way. I know some games do it this way, but we often start with a design of a character rather than anything too ultra specific,” Negus tells Variety. “We’ll have some concept art, maybe more, in terms of how they would be styled. But as far as the specific person goes, we do one to one likeness using our capture process, and often who the character is greatly influenced by the actor that we get in order to play the character. It’s very, very similar to movies. Sometimes they’ll have more or less exactly what they’re looking for and find exactly that person. And we do some of that, but it’s very much the opposite direction, too.”
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