Rainbow Six's Angela Bassett learned about mo cap from Call of Duty videos

Angela Bassett lent her voice and likeness to the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege, but consulted Call of Duty videos to learn about motion capture.

Bassett revealed at a Rainbow Six Siege preview event that mo cap, or motion capture, hadn’t even been a term that she was familiar with. She has some animation work under her belt where she has lent her voice to performances, but has never gone through the process of having her likeness captured.

She said that she took a look at Kevin Spacey’s appearance (in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare) “just to see what it looked like with an actor in it,” rather than something that’s been animated. These trailers helped her “get an idea of what it was.”