Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Cast Wants The Game Awards to add a Motion Capture Category - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 December 2025 / 2,840 Views
The cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in an interview with VideoGamesChronicle has called for The Game Awards to add more award categaories that includes motion capture performers and supporting roles.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been nominated 12 times for The Game Awards 2025, which is set to take place on Thursday, December 11 at 4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET / 12:30 am GMT.
The game's stars Jennifer English, Shayla Nyx, Devora Wilde and Aliona Baranova all called for more categories.
"If I may, can I put my petition forward for why we need to have a motion capture category?" asked Aliona Baranova. "It needs to happen. I posted about it online the other day, and some people were questioning like, ‘how would we do it?’. I don’t know, they can figure it out. We need to do it because there are these fantastic mocap performances going on.
"It’s been decades of actors going in, doing the mocap, and then someone else’s voice is popped on top, and those mocap performers just disappear. I forgot that. Nobody knows about them."
Baranova added, "The audience doesn’t know enough about this because there’s not enough attention on it. If we had an award category for mocap specifically, then studios would be encouraged to release that behind-the-scenes footage because people are desperate for it. Studios keep that a bit quiet because it gives away details on how they made the game."
The actors were asked about The Game Awards adding more performance categories to include supporting actors and they were in favor of it.
"Yes, I was actually surprised about that for The Game Awards," said Devora Wilde. "But I think that’s always been the case, hasn’t it? It’s just been performance in a game."
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So, this whole thing and with Charlie Cox speaking up recently has made me wonder about a few many things. Gaming technology has increased to the point that characters and their animations are no longer limited to just hand crafted animations and text on a screen. They are hiring experienced paid actors to not only voice but act down to facial expressions and for multiple languages at times. Yet the awards in this case are for "Performance" and it's listed as just the English performers.
While adding a motion capture award might be good, it's another category for what is essentially could be the same people and all covered in 1 Award for "Character Performance" in which all actors who portrayed said character are up for it, not just the English actor.
For example, if there were 2 awards, would Christopher Judge have won it for God Of War in both categories and then people would ask "Why are there 2?"
And, let's not isolate The Ad Awards here, Bafta should at least be promoting the idea more.
Including an award for best supporting performance would be better
Well, I don't know about that. If anything they already have too many categories. Though supporting cast would make sense.
Bafta already do (although it comes from a performance based background) while GDC don't do any performance based awards (and funnily enough is a more technical side of things).
Just acknowledging all performers for the role is surely the best?
Reminds me of that talk about having in the Academy Awards a category for stunt work
Makes sense and I agree. But her point about devs keeping it secret because it's a development secret also makes sense, so I'm not sure if it's feasible for this award to happen
