Rockstar reveals it built a GTA 6 team that focused solely on creating more realistic NPCs with over 600,000 animations — twice as many as Red Dead Redemption 2 had
- Grand Theft Auto 6's hand-crafted NPCs have over 600,000 animations
- Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut says Rockstar established a new team that art-directed every single NPC
- Garbut says every single room and the NPCs inside them were hand-crafted
To achieve the grand scale and realism we witnessed this week in Grand Theft Auto 6's extended look, the development team went above and beyond, according to Rockstar.
In an interview with The New York Times about the game's development, Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut revealed that the studio established a new Los Angeles-based team of writers, directors, and producers to focus solely on realizing non-player characters (NPCs).
"We art-directed each individual one of them," said Garbut, revealing that GTA 6 has over 600,000 animations, compared to GTA 5's 55,000 and double Red Dead Redemption 2's 300,000 animations.
"Every room in the game, somebody thought about this,"...
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