Messages from Guy Cihi (James' voice actor)

[celston]

SH2 was much more than visits to a recording studio. Every scene was acted out live before video cameras and motion-capture gear that records wire-form figures upon which artists could later render graphic skins. Actors memorized their lines, rehearsed, and performed countless re-takes. We laughed, wept, argued, fell-down, whatever. It was like making a film except we didn’t need special costumes and the sets were cardboard boxes placed there to create proper spatial relationships. When a player moves James between strands of barbed wire or over an obstacle he is actually watching me climbing between stings or over cardboard boxes on the motion-capture set.

How awesome would it be to get some of that footage? I don't have the "Silent Hill Experience" PSP, is there some behind-the-scenes type stuff, like this, on it?

Not on the SHE, but on the Director's Cut DVD that comes with the Europe version of the game it is there.

I have a copy.

I assume that would make it PAL format so even hunting for it on eBay or whatever would prove fruitless for this 'Merican? Are they any rips of the video online (YouTube, etc?).

As far as the quality of the voice acting...now that it's a little more obvious that Guy was more an amateur than I previously was aware, the quality is surprisingly well done. It wasn't perfect and had a few hiccups throughout. But all things considered, it turned out quite well.