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With such a storied career, we were curious to know where and how it all began, and it turns out, it was almost by complete accident.
He adds that the thought that a game could be "so narratively focused that they have fully fledged, three-dimensional characters was just not something I ever thought about when I was training as an actor". But in short order, Cockle tells us the "whole video game world just opened up in front of me".
"When I was starting out, they didn't have performance capture classes or motion capture workshops or things like that," Cockle recalls, adding that everything he learned was "on the job".
Cockle has a career outside of games too, having been involved in film, television and theatre projects, but when it comes to performance capture, Cockle reveals that "what I find wonderful about it is it's like being in a play", adding that "when you're on screen, in front of a camera, it feels different because, at least to a certain extent, you have to limit how much you move. You have specific marks you need to hit for the focus pullers and for the narrative and for everything else."
View oEmbed on the source websiteThough Cockle learned performance-capture on set, he didn’t go in completely blind, as his background in theatre afforded him the skills necessary. "I've done movement and voice and all those things, classical acting, all of that, which is actually really, really good preparation for doing this kind of work, for doing motion capture and performance capture. It's all the same kind of skills."
"I went to this dentist's office somewhere near Liverpool Street, and went in, and they sat me in this chair, and they had these things they put in my mouth, and they did a full three-dimensional digital scan of my teeth and my mouth, my lips and my everything," Cockle regales us.
"No idea."
Still, Cockle squeezes in what he can. "I've been playing Little Kitty Big City on my Steam Deck, and I could only ever manage to gather about half an hour of time."
Doug assures us that he’s "played The Witcher 3 all the way through", but concedes that he is "still working on the DLCs", as he tells us that "it took me six months to get through it all, for all the reasons we talked about... So I abandoned my children for Saturday afternoons for six months so that I can play The Witcher 3.
But, how is it to listen to yourself in a game for hundreds of hours?
"But occasionally," Cockle says, "I remember Geralt would say something, and just a little piece of me would go, 'Oh, I could have done that better. That didn't sound quite right,' but that's me judging my own work."
"He says, “Hey, would you like to meet Geralt's father?' And they're like, 'Oh, who Vesemir?' He goes, 'No, Geralt's real father...' And he says, 'Yeah, my son is Geralt of Rivia.'"
Cockle reckons his dad does it when he wants a "little extra attention".
But, as for what the future holds for Geralt in The Witcher 4, Cockle is steadfast, saying "You know, the honest answer is, I don't know. And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you."
With The Witcher having played such a large part of his life, Cockle finds that when it comes to being Geralt, he says he "just falls into it, so much so that I actually walk around the house, and I sometimes find myself saying things like, 'Damn, I gotta do those dishes. Where are those socks? I swear I had those socks a minute ago.'"
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