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Is this all rendered models? I honestly thought much of it was just filmed humans. I mean, once they get in the car, it's pretty obvious it's a game, but before

Is this all rendered models? I honestly thought much of it was just filmed humans. I mean, once they get in the car, it's pretty obvious it's a game, but before that, there were a lot of shots that looked filmed.

alexhjones 5y ago
I think until it has the Xbox/PS5 logo at the bottom it looks filmed as an intro to the actual demo.
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- lm28469 5y ago
  Probably not, the body animations from 1:40 look very unnatural to me, the scene at 2:05 looks worse than in the original movie and more like a ps4 game
udbhavs 5y ago
Keanu switches to a CG model at 1:39, then the one in the mirror at 1:56 is real again.
pacifika 5y ago
> The demo has two parts. The first is a narrative sequence that doesn't respond to button taps, and it opens with a digital facsimile of actor Keanu Reeves—not playing a character, just Keanu being Keanu—remarking on The Matrix. He strolls through moments from the first film while pondering the original trilogy's questions about what is and isn't real. (Every time he passes a mirror, the bearded, long-haired Reeves who appears in it is video footage; otherwise, he's all digital. This article doesn't include any real-life Keanu.) Soon after, a digital facsimile of his Matrix co-star Carrie-Anne Moss appears—she only appears as a digital avatar, never as filmed footage—and their conversation eventually warps into a car chase. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is-2021s-must-play-flex-of-current-gen-console-power/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is...
- byproxy 5y ago
  This seems to bolster the theory that The Matrix: Resurrections will be pretty meta and about Keanu Reeves “being in” (i.e. acting in) The Matrix.
- ghusbands 5y ago
  I'm fairly sure that quote is not factual. Many early appearances of Keanu are clearly a form of video footage; look at the later gameplay scenes to see the actual digital rendering of Keanu, with skin rendering not even matching ten year old games like LA Noire. Even when one Keanu is walking past another in the Morpheus scene, you can see that one is computer generated, with slightly better skin rendering than later, and one is video. Same goes for when Keanu walks through the bullet-time visual effects - the characters involved in the effects are clearly much lower fidelity than the filmed Keanu.
hnbad 5y ago
In the sequences prior to the car I think it's most obvious by looking at the eyes. Especially the wrinkles have an odd "glow" to them. I think they may have recreated all the sequences that look like they were taken out of the movie but it's hard to tell because many of them are shown on screens with a filter. Honestly, after reading that supposedly some of the shots of current age Keanu are not rendered but real, I'm wondering if that's even true though. Maybe the odd appearance of the eyes is an artefact of the lighting of the all white room.

alexhjones 5y ago

I think until it has the Xbox/PS5 logo at the bottom it looks filmed as an intro to the actual demo.

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lm28469 5y ago
Probably not, the body animations from 1:40 look very unnatural to me, the scene at 2:05 looks worse than in the original movie and more like a ps4 game

udbhavs 5y ago

Keanu switches to a CG model at 1:39, then the one in the mirror at 1:56 is real again.

pacifika 5y ago

> The demo has two parts. The first is a narrative sequence that doesn't respond to button taps, and it opens with a digital facsimile of actor Keanu Reeves—not playing a character, just Keanu being Keanu—remarking on The Matrix. He strolls through moments from the first film while pondering the original trilogy's questions about what is and isn't real. (Every time he passes a mirror, the bearded, long-haired Reeves who appears in it is video footage; otherwise, he's all digital. This article doesn't include any real-life Keanu.) Soon after, a digital facsimile of his Matrix co-star Carrie-Anne Moss appears—she only appears as a digital avatar, never as filmed footage—and their conversation eventually warps into a car chase. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is-2021s-must-play-flex-of-current-gen-console-power/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is...

byproxy 5y ago
This seems to bolster the theory that The Matrix: Resurrections will be pretty meta and about Keanu Reeves “being in” (i.e. acting in) The Matrix.
ghusbands 5y ago
I'm fairly sure that quote is not factual. Many early appearances of Keanu are clearly a form of video footage; look at the later gameplay scenes to see the actual digital rendering of Keanu, with skin rendering not even matching ten year old games like LA Noire. Even when one Keanu is walking past another in the Morpheus scene, you can see that one is computer generated, with slightly better skin rendering than later, and one is video. Same goes for when Keanu walks through the bullet-time visual effects - the characters involved in the effects are clearly much lower fidelity than the filmed Keanu.

hnbad 5y ago

In the sequences prior to the car I think it's most obvious by looking at the eyes. Especially the wrinkles have an odd "glow" to them. I think they may have recreated all the sequences that look like they were taken out of the movie but it's hard to tell because many of them are shown on screens with a filter. Honestly, after reading that supposedly some of the shots of current age Keanu are not rendered but real, I'm wondering if that's even true though. Maybe the odd appearance of the eyes is an artefact of the lighting of the all white room.