Johnny Silverhand face looks a bit off

[Spercules]

First of all this is a no hate post, i just wanted to genuinely ask this.

I have watched every trailer, night city wire and gameplay as many of you have and when i saw the Johnny Silverhand face in the elevator scene from the XBOX ONE X gameplay video the face didn't look like 100% Keanu Reeves face to me, i felt that some of the characteristics specifically around the nose/eyes didn't mach up. Is it just me? Is it a developers choice? Thanks for your time!

[Bastila Shan]

So he looks like keanu reeves everywhere you saw him except the elevator?
Well somehow I don’t think it’s anything more than the lighting that has distorted your perception of his face. I didn’t notice any irregularities.

He doesn’t quite look exactly like keanu anyway, silver hands neck is thicker but the face is 3D scanned keanu.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Facial expressions are probably generated with JALI based on Keanu`s 3D scan like they do with all the other characters in the game. I dint see the 3D tracing dots in the face of Keanu for direct facial expression capture like they did with Senua in the last info dump at 19th, just the usual body suit for body motion capture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBLTazR6zU

[Count D'Cinamon]

https://youtu.be/rPppjjvjQlk?t=39

how about this face from 0:39?

if you want to judge the quality of the face model, might as well use the pc build than the downgraded console ver.

[ABCmouse.com]

I'd imagine they wouldn't want him to look exactly like keanu, if they're still pushing the "immersion" angle. There could just be some slight adjustments to the face that are throwing you off.

[Spercules]

Originally posted by D'Cinamon:

https://youtu.be/rPppjjvjQlk?t=39

how about this face from 0:39?

if you want to judge the quality of the face model, might as well use the pc build than the downgraded console ver.

Did a comparison from the E3 2019 and the video you posted and i think the model in the 2020 has lower quality and details. Probably what throws me off.

[Count D'Cinamon]

Originally posted by Spercules:

Did a comparison from the E3 2019 and the video you posted and i think the model in the 2020 has lower quality and details. Probably what throws me off.

wait.. did you mean that cinematic trailer? i mean of course it would be somewhat different. high quality model like that aren't usually performance friendly

[BionicDance]

Maybe it's just me, but...I kinda wish they'd kept the 80s pretty-boy, blond-mullet, butt-rocker looks from the manual instead of trying to make him look like Keanu.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by Tux:

and this is a post of what I have been explaining for a few days now as to why they should not use known actors.

this is exactly what I was getting at.

If the actor was unknown, you would not have known it was off

Or people could remember that it's not supposed to be Actual Keanu™ and just go with it.

[Xenu]

OP analysed Keanu face for months for the purpose of this post.

[UnhappyCLOWN]

If you don't like garbage console graphics... don't play it on garbage consoles.

[BionicDance]

Also, let's keep in mind that Keanu doesn't even look like Keanu anymore.

I mean, I've only seen the trailers for Bill & Ted 3 (I should correct that soon), but he doesn't look like Ted 'Theodore' Logan anymore. He's aged...strangely. Not badly, just...weirdly.

That we're getting what looks like mid-40s Johnny Silverhand with a weapons-grade beard that, frankly, looks more like Keanu than Keanu does now is a good thing.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by Tux:

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Or people could remember that it's not supposed to be Actual Keanu™ and just go with it.

very unlikely. that is not how the brain works.

See, you can't just say things like that as if it were universal and axiomatic.

My brain doesn't work like that, and I'm not going to spend the game trying to cram a video game character into a mental mold I have of the actor.
I'm sure that there are a lot of movies and TV shows I couldn't accept if that were the case since the actor and the character's description in the book/comic/whatever was being adapted often look nothing alike.

yeah some conciously do that but in the back of their mind, they see errors that otherwise they would not have seen in the first place.

Or they get used to it. That's happened to me often enough.
"Don't like it, don't like it, don't like it, just going with it, it's kind of okay, now I'm not even noticing cuz it's become familiar to me..." <--- how my brain will take this, I'm sure, based on long experience

[ABCmouse.com]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Maybe it's just me, but...I kinda wish they'd kept the 80s pretty-boy, blond-mullet, butt-rocker looks from the manual instead of trying to make him look like Keanu.

I think Keanu looks fine but I do miss that mullet.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by JubJubJubilee:

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Maybe it's just me, but...I kinda wish they'd kept the 80s pretty-boy, blond-mullet, butt-rocker looks from the manual instead of trying to make him look like Keanu.

I think Keanu looks fine but I do miss that mullet.

I'm definitely not saying he doesn't look fine; we're not going to disagree on that.

I'm just stating a preference. 'Course, I'm also an 80s kid to the bone, so seeing Johnny looking more like someone from Poison or Twisted Sister has more appeal than looking some some 90s screamo band member.