Poked in here due to boredom and happened on a discussion of mocap and actors’ likenesses being used in games. Surely 2018’s Detroit: Become Human is the apex for this stuff so far, judging by the videos of it I have watched. As far as I know the actors in the original The Last of Us don’t look like their characters, although the same year saw Beyond: Two Souls, which did have its actors mocapped in (at least the two leads), although (I haven’t watched any videos of it, it doesn’t really interest me) I would imagine the five years between it and Detroit saw some serious improvements in the technique.
It’s pretty funny/interesting watching this happen. I remember (not all that long ago!) when the idea was that eventually computer-generated actors might replace real people in movies, and instead now flesh and blood actors are invading games!