Beyond Good And Evil 2 Found Footage Surfaces – From 2008

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Some footage of Beyond Good and Evil 2 has surfaced – from 2008.

Damien Barranco is an animator who worked for Ubisoft in the 2000s and has 5 credited games on Mobygames. Those games include the original Beyond Good and Evil, all the way back in 2003.

This week, Damien’s animation work on Beyond Good and Evil 2 as it was in 2008 had surfaced. While we don’t have that much more seconds of footage than the new footage of Theda Bara in Cleopatra from 1917, both stand as groundbreaking pieces of found footage. For those who are curious, you can see the new Cleopatra footage here.

Des cinématiques inédites du Beyond Good & Evil 2 de 2008 viennent d'être découvertes par un fan ! Glissées dans le portfolio de Damien Barranco, animateur sur BG&E et sa suite (et bien d'autres !), on y découvre Pey'j et Double H en pleine discussion dans un bar ! #BGE2 pic.twitter.com/grpZrp8yta

Getting back to video games, the found animations mainly show new work on Jade’s mentor, Pey’j. It starts with a precious two frames of Jade shaking Pey’j’s shoulders, apparently getting him to wake up.

It then moves to footage of Pey’j gripping and holding onto his right arm. His right arm is heavily bandaged, and shows signs of serious injury. In fact, there are some splotches of blood around his arms and hands. Pey’j eventually lets go of his arm as he turns around to see someone or something.

A third animation shows Pey’j  in a familiar scenario; punch drunk, and talking to someone else in the bar. He gets so worked up from his story that he eventually falls over from his stool. This scene also has voice acting from an unidentified actor. We don’t know if this is the same actor who voices him in the video games, and it may be possible it’s placeholder