With The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, developers at CD Projekt RED felt pleased with the quality of lip-synced dialogue animations for its characters. Believing there was still room for improvement, though, the studio began searching for a way to raise the bar in Cyberpunk 2077. Most importantly, CD Projekt wanted better quality lip-sync with ?muscle-driven emotional expressions? for every character in the open-world. Raising the stakes even further was the goal to achieve this feat across 10 different languages. Since facial motion capture of this scale was out of the question, CD Projekt turned to another solution?special AI technology.
In a Siggraph 2020 talk, ?JALI Driven Expressive Facial Animation and Multilingual Speech in Cyberpunk 2077,? the title?s Lead Character Technical Director, Mateusz Pop?awskl, revealed how the novel AI technology found its way into the RPG. In 2016, Pop?awskl said, he stumbled across a technical paper from JALI Research regarding lip-synchronization.
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