Sure, but if they can still go in and manually tweak the animation and enhance the articulation themselves, I'm sure it could be just as good.

To me that just makes using the motion capture seem pretty much unnecessary if they can produce better facial expressions in Underworld than untouched actual facial motion capture.

I agree. The facial animations are poor.

Well not if you take real reference footage and add it to the work done in TRU.

Then I assume you get a masterpiece.

It seems to me what they're doing is capturing the facial expressions on camera as reference and going back in to match up the animation.

That's what Uncharted does I'm pretty sure.

Yep, something like that.

Uncharted does it by hand, using reference. Tombraider is actually capturing and using the facial capture. Apparently...

Glad I'm not the only one. :p

They should of simply used the better technology. Then we'd have the closest to realistic as possible and Lara would really come to life. Unfortunately, with have....well something pretty dire.

In the leaked footage though, the animations seem fine :)

I think the facial animations are great when she's talking to Sam at E3, and at the campfire.

I'm fine with the animations. I don't really see the problem. Sometimes they look kind of meh...okay, but they never look awful and generally look good to me.