What's with the face? - CD Project RED told how to create facial animation for NPC

To create facial animations for NPCs, CD Project RED said the work was done using JALI's machine-trained artificial intelligence, which helped the developers optimize the process. Creating all the animations by hand, according to CDPR's Sebastian Kalemba, would be too financial and very expensive. Instead, the head of animation decided to use this lightweight animation creation option. By the way, they can be edited at any stage, so that JALI does not create additional difficulties for developers, but is an exceptionally good help.

Another incredible plus of this trained neural network is the support for multilingual dubbing. For example, if the user plays with English voice acting, then the NPCs will speak English and have the corresponding lip sync, and so on with all supporting languages.

Cyberpunk 2077 is due out on November 19, 2020 on all platforms of the current generation. Later, they want to transfer the game to the next generation consoles, which will also be released in November.