How does Harrison Ford's face look so real in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle? We asked the developers
radiotimes.comIf you’ve seen the trailers for the upcoming Indiana Jones game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, you’ll know that Indy in the game looks uncannily similar to Harrison Ford from the films.
The game, which slots into the Indiana Jones timeline between 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1989’s The Last Crusade, takes place from a first-person perspective, but you still see Indy’s face at various points in the game. It is, unmistakably, Harrison Ford’s face.
However, it has been confirmed that Ford did not provide the performance for Indy in the game, with voice duties being handled by The Last of Us star Troy Baker.
At a recent online preview event for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I couldn’t help but ask the developers from MachineGames how they managed this digital sorcery.
My theory was that they had collaborated with the Disney-owned Lucasfilm movie studio, who must have had scans of Ford from the recent film.
In that movie, The Dial of Destiny, there was a memorable sequence featuring a digitally de-aged Harrison Ford.
So, at the event, I asked just that. Is there some sharing of resources here, with Lucasfilm allowing MachineGames to access their digital double of Ford from the recent feature film?
Axel Torvenius, creative director on The Great Circle, told me: «No, that's not what happened when we created our version.
»So, for the majority of the main cast, we've been having them scanned, basically. But we didn't have an opportunity to travel back in time and scan a young Harrison Ford.
«So what we've instead been doing is, through a lot of hard work and research, looking at a lot of the old material from the movies.»
Torvenius explained that the developers «gained access to, like, turnaround photo sets that exist from the time, back in the '80s».
He stressed that it was «important to us to make sure that we portray and capture Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford, at that time, just after Raiders».
«So it's work that has been developed here at MachineGames.»
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