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How WB Montreal made Gotham Knights ' cutscenes work for four playable heroes

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WB Montreal's Wilson Mui discussed how Gotham Knights ' cutscenes were made with its four heroes in mind, while ensuring they maintained their own individuality.

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Narrative in trailers, cutscenes and cinematics (for the game music composer)

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Emphasizing narrative using game music - 4th in an article series on music for trailers, cutscenes, & cinematics, by composer Winifred Phillips.

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On the topic of cutscenes, do you think we will get to the point where fully pre-rendered cutscenes will be phased out entirely? Are there any other advantages to having a cutscene be pre-rendered rather than in engine besides the cutscene being “prettier” than the base graphics?

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I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently. As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g.

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How to make cutscenes?

Cocos

You can check out Animation Panel which supports animating the properties of nodes and calling the event functions of the Animation Events.

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Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers is a tribute to sci-fi movies of the ’50s

PreMortem.Games

“From the moment I got the idea of making it like an old movie I called the people from Fehorama Filmes to work on the live action cutscenes”, says Rosa. The initial idea was for them to just work on the cutscenes, but they ended up executive producing the whole project.” They had the know-how as producers, so they stepped in.

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How to make cutscenes?

Cocos

Unreal has Sequencer, Unity has Timeline, what do people use for Cocos Creator?

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I feel like I or someone else asked you this, but do you think that gameplay will ever get to the point where it looks like the fancy prerendered cutscenes? Even the outstanding visuals we have now, don’t really look like say, Sonic Unleashed’s opening cinematic from….Christ, 2008 was really 15 years ago. Anyway, Is there a way to match that that look in style and fidelity or is it just kind of a “physics” thing where that’s basically not possible? What stops that if that’s the case.

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I don't believe that gameplay will ever look like fancy prerendered cutscenes because gameplay has certain needs that cutscenes do not, and cutscenes have certain needs that gameplay does not. Here's what I mean. When you're watching a cinematic in a game like Spider-Man, what are you seeing on screen?