Animated Faces in Nightfall Cinematics

[Erasculio]

Following recent news, Gaile just revealed that we will have animated faces in the Nightfall cinematics. As part of the change, some of our characters' faces will be changed (so they'll be animated, too, not only the NPCs).

What do you guys think? I would love if my Mesmer smiled as she casts her spells. "Oops, I made that 25 energy spell backlash, I'm soooo sorry"

Erasculio

[Ashberry]

I think its great!


Edit: will this work on old cinematics too?

[Lilanthe]

Yes, you can see some Tyrian female necros ( in character creation ) with their mouth open.

[Ostriig]

Whoa! I'm loving this! I'm actually going to give ANet two thumbs up for this one (which I rarely do)!

As a sidenote, I do hope they manage to keep the faces as much like the original as they were (some are already complaining about the issue).

Still, bottom line is "Thank you." GG!

Edit:
Had a look over mine, again. They seem fine. My first Warrior and my Ranger seem to have gotten the bonus of some tired eye rings. But there is a possibility that's simply due to the new login screen lights. And I think they may have worked on my Necromancer's face, too, but I can't tell for sure.

I don't know if the process is complete, or there still are faces to update. For the time being, I, for one, have no complaints.

[Ashberry]

Checked all mine, some look different, probably all do but couldn't really tell, the mes looks far better now though, was never happy with her face before. Glad they remade them like that and didn't do a half arsed job of it like some companies would have.

[critical vengeance]

it should be awesome, now it will be more like a cinematic

[Giggles]

I just hope the cinematics are a whole lot better. I'd rather have much better cinematics than facial animation. Hopefully, the animation won't just be emotes either. Nothing takes you away more from a story than bad animation and bad voice overs. I guess we'll find out soon enough!

[Xycury]

the faces changed but it's like the best i've ever seen.

all of them look great, and they blink! ha... that's just .... awesome.

[Ostriig]

all of them look great, and they blink! ha... that's just .... awesome.

Think they already did that...

[My Sweet Revenga]

the faces changed but it's like the best i've ever seen.

all of them look great, and they blink! ha... that's just .... awesome.

Actually they already had the ability to blink. In fact if you just stood there and watched their breathing animation, they blinked every time they exhailed lol. It was actually kinda silly looking. But yes if those complaint threads about messed up faces is due to ANET modifying the face meshes for full animation, that would be great. I can only imagine what new emote commands will show up in future patches......