Stunt Men Recreate Video Game Fighters

April 23, 2018 4:10 PM

I'm not a gamer so I have no idea how well these guys do. But it's certainly very cleverly done, and well done, too. And the stunt guys seem to put their all into the depictions. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
posted by MovableBookLady (26 comments total)

This is relevant to my interests.
posted by Fizz at 4:24 PM on April 23, 2018 [6 favorites]

Here's the direct YouTube link.
posted by Pronoiac at 4:31 PM on April 23, 2018 [8 favorites]

No Solid Snake in a box, no deal.
posted by Groundhog Week at 4:32 PM on April 23, 2018 [4 favorites]

Thing is, pretty much every one of the the games they're referencing use a lot of motion capture and real live stunt performers to make their games look so fluid and real-ish. So yeah it is cool to see them straight up cosplaying these roles and bringing these characters to life, but in the end the difference between what they're doing for this shoot and what was done to create of lot of the motion you see in modern AAA games is a body suit covered in ping pong balls.
posted by thecjm at 4:44 PM on April 23, 2018 [9 favorites]

Another rough day at the empty cardboard box factory, I see!

I was hoping for Voldo. Maybe another time —
posted by Countess Elena at 5:02 PM on April 23, 2018 [10 favorites]

Good stuff. Those folks work really hard. Needs some Lara Croft, though. Maybe in the part 2.
posted by lumpenprole at 5:04 PM on April 23, 2018 [1 favorite]

Needs some XCOM where they hide behind cover for 10 minutes or so then are killed the moment they move.
posted by GuyZero at 5:08 PM on April 23, 2018 [12 favorites]

I feel like the Brothers Chaps do a better job with their own motion capture
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:25 PM on April 23, 2018 [2 favorites]

Oh, I thought from the title that it would be characters from fighting games, haha.
posted by inconstant at 5:25 PM on April 23, 2018 [3 favorites]

Voldo has already given us so much.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:33 PM on April 23, 2018 [5 favorites]

This was well done. Those guys know their shit. Maybe some women in the next one would be nice tho, lots of talented stuntwomen out there.
posted by some loser at 5:35 PM on April 23, 2018 [3 favorites]

Oh, I thought from the title that it would be characters from fighting games, haha.

Yeah, same. I was wondering "how are they going to do a hurricane kick? and how are they going to stretch their arms halfway across the screen?"
posted by mhum at 5:47 PM on April 23, 2018 [10 favorites]

I was wondering if they might do Dark Souls, where the guy rolls around for 5 minutes while taking drinks from a Sunny D bottle.
posted by codacorolla at 6:06 PM on April 23, 2018 [14 favorites]

Fun!
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 7:54 PM on April 23, 2018

I was hoping for Skyrim, but realistically speaking it would have just been arrows flying out of dark corners and headshotting everyone.
posted by MrVisible at 8:46 PM on April 23, 2018 [7 favorites]

This was well done. Those guys know their shit. Maybe some women in the next one would be nice tho, lots of talented stuntwomen out there.

Had my fingers crossed for Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. Maybe the next one is all women!
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 12:26 AM on April 24, 2018

I was hoping for Skyrim, but realistically speaking it would have just been arrows flying out of dark corners and headshotting everyone.

And just to be authentically Skyrim nobody notices, or remembers thirty seconds later.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:03 AM on April 24, 2018 [6 favorites]

They nailed Nathan Drake. It would have been inauthentic had he not spent half the time getting his ass kicked.
posted by CaseyB at 6:10 AM on April 24, 2018 [3 favorites]

I don't know why, but I was delighted at seeing a bunch of them in what appeared to be just socks on their feet.
posted by TwoStride at 8:25 AM on April 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Slo-Mo is a hell of a drug.
posted by RhysPenbras at 8:57 AM on April 24, 2018

I was hoping for Skyrim, but realistically speaking it would have just been arrows flying out of dark corners and headshotting everyone.

“I used to be a stuntman like you...”
posted by Fizz at 9:56 AM on April 24, 2018 [7 favorites]

i haven't played any of the more recent Uncharted lately (I think the last one I played was Uncharted 3), but I don't remember a whole lot of fighting...
posted by numaner at 10:22 AM on April 24, 2018

Thing is, pretty much every one of the the games they're referencing use a lot of motion capture and real live stunt performers to make their games look so fluid and real-ish. So yeah it is cool to see them straight up cosplaying these roles and bringing these characters to life, but in the end the difference between what they're doing for this shoot and what was done to create of lot of the motion you see in modern AAA games is a body suit covered in ping pong balls.
posted by thecjm at 4:44 PM on April 23

I mean, yes, and I think part of this is probably done as a resume piece for the stuntpeople involved? That doesn't make actually getting to see it less cool though.
posted by Canageek at 11:10 AM on April 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

I was wondering if they might do Dark Souls, where the guy rolls around for 5 minutes while taking drinks from a Sunny D bottle.

while the coach stands to the side and just keeps saying 'try jumping' while snickering
posted by FatherDagon at 1:00 PM on April 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Motion capture actors drive video game characters, inspiring these stuntmen to turn those animations back into movement. Maybe this reel will land a couple of them mocap work, thus completing the loop.
posted by EatTheWeek at 11:52 PM on April 24, 2018

Eric Jacobus is worth adding to this thread, a martial artist who duplicates fighting game characters' entire movesets.
posted by EatTheWeek at 12:04 AM on April 25, 2018 [1 favorite]