Virtual Camera Movement Bring the Innovation and Creativity in Action Video Games for The Player - Analysis on Cutscenes in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 6 as an example -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Many game players are well familiar with cutscenes. It is usually used as linkage between settings or an award to the player who passed through, or defeated the Boss and it is not controlled by the players. Nowadays, along with the rapid development of 3D and virtual shot technology, more and more games begin to have plenty of cutscenes in the process of the plot development. As a kind of animated pictures, cutscene is mainly used for story-telling. It is quite different from the animated movies that it lies inside the game, stringing up each episode into a full story. Thus the use of shots is much important in the process of designing cutscenes. As for the latest design of 3D animation, its most advantage is the use of virtual shots and impressive performance, and the dexterous use of virtual camera movement can make effects much better than others.

This paper will discuss the various use of camera movement in cutscenes of the series games, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 6. Since there was more than ten years between these two games had been developed, the visual effect in game is showing huge diversity due to the difference between the techniques in hardware and software. In this study, lens design freed from technique limitation was used to be compared with that in ten years before.

According to the analysis of camera data collected from cutscenes in these two games, along with virtual camera developing, Resident Evil 6 is showing more complex shots, more affluent lens motion ways and more vivid lens effects comparing 10 years before. Therefore, the lens design in game cutscenes should be paid more attention due to the development of virtual camera. In this research, it was found that the players were showing negative feelings for too much this kind of cutscenes in 3D action game. Although game producer though that cutscenes was a very important interactive tool between players, how to balance the game producer and player’s demand should be discussed in the further works.

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