00:04I originally came onto God of War
00:06because the animators for the game
00:08actually found me on YouTube.
00:15That kind of went viral
00:17and then the animators saw it
00:18and then they called me up directly.
00:21My name's Eric Jacobus.
00:22I did the combat motion capture
00:24for Kratos and the new God of War.
00:25And this is how you fight like Kratos.
00:33I would describe Kratos' fighting style
00:35as one that's very direct, straightforward
00:38and never stopping.
00:39We would never retreat in the game.
00:42He's the God of War.
00:43You'd never retreat as the God of War.
00:45You're always going to move forward.
00:46Every single move that I did
00:48had to have that full rage.
00:57When the team asked me to audition
00:59instead of coming down to L.A.
01:01and auditioning in front of a committee,
01:02why don't I just go in my garage
01:03and do what I've been doing
01:04in these fighting games
01:05and just do a Kratos move list.
01:12I made a little move list for Kratos
01:14where I do empty-handed combinations
01:16and I did the axe moves.
01:20Superman punches, Sparta kicks.
01:22We did a little bit of drop kicking.
01:24I had this training dummy
01:25that I beat up with the axe.
01:26It was kind of funny, you know?
01:27I put everything I had into it,
01:30you know, and I sent it over to them.
01:33Next thing I knew,
01:34they called me in to do a day of shooting.
01:36Take two, mark.
01:38Motion capture plays such an important role
01:40because it allows the animators
01:42so much more movement to work with.
01:45When you capture the right movement,
01:47you don't have to pull the camera back
01:48into God's Eye view anymore.
01:49You can bring the camera in.
01:52As a gamer,
01:53when you're playing a game
01:54and you're that close to the main character,
01:55you suspend disbelief so much more quickly
01:58when the character moves like a human.
02:01The body's a series of pulleys.
02:03You can't really fake it at a certain point,
02:05especially when it's so close to the camera.
02:08because this is one of the coolest jobs
02:10a stuntman could ever ask for.
02:12I mean, coming in and playing
02:13the God of War himself,
02:15you know, and just doing axe moves all day.
02:17And that's exhausting.
02:18Sure, it's eight hours of work,
02:19but, you know,
02:20a stuntman's body is built for this stuff.
02:23We really thrive when we're able
02:24to do full-body moves like this.
02:29I would say that this sort of
02:31is the stuntman's dream.
02:33For the players.
02:37For the players.
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