Can AI truly replicate the screams of a man on fire? Video game performers want their work protected


Dalal at a panel for SAG Aftra ‘Game Actors on Game Actors’ during Comic-Con International 2024. Dalal said he took it personally when he heard that the video game companies negotiating with SAG-AFTRA over a new contract wanted to consider some movement work ‘data’ and not performance. — AP

LOS ANGELES: For hours, motion capture sensors tacked onto Noshir Dalal’s body tracked his movements as he unleashed aerial strikes, overhead blows and single-handed attacks that would later show up in a video game.

He eventually swung the sledgehammer gripped in his hand so many times that he tore a tendon in his forearm. By the end of the day, he couldn’t pull the handle of his car door open.

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