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[[Blur Studio]] once again created pre-rendered CGI sequences for the game's cutscenes.<ref>[http://www.blur.com/struktur-feature/halo-wars-2/ '''Blur.com:''' ''Halo Wars 2'']</ref> Changes in Blur's approach to CGI animation have resulted in some of the characters being recast. In the original ''Halo Wars'', the characters were hand-sculpted and animated whereas Blur has since come to favor full motion capture technology, including facial performance capture; due to this change, actors that resemble the characters they are playing as closely as possible are preferred. Most notably, [[James Cutter|Captain Cutter]], originally voiced by [[Wikipedia:Gregg Berger|Gregg Berger]], is now played by [[Gideon Emery]] (digitally aged to appear closer to Cutter's biological age), while {{Plain|[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3841651/ Faye Kingslee]}} was recast as [[Ellen Anders|Professor Anders]] due to scheduling conflicts with her previous voice actress [[Wikipedia:Kim Mai Guest|Kim Mai Guest]].<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/warzone-firefight-sneak-peek '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Warzone Firefight Sneak Peek'']</ref> | [[Blur Studio]] once again created pre-rendered CGI sequences for the game's cutscenes.<ref>[http://www.blur.com/struktur-feature/halo-wars-2/ '''Blur.com:''' ''Halo Wars 2'']</ref> Changes in Blur's approach to CGI animation have resulted in some of the characters being recast. In the original ''Halo Wars'', the characters were hand-sculpted and animated whereas Blur has since come to favor full motion capture technology, including facial performance capture; due to this change, actors that resemble the characters they are playing as closely as possible are preferred. Most notably, [[James Cutter|Captain Cutter]], originally voiced by [[Wikipedia:Gregg Berger|Gregg Berger]], is now played by [[Gideon Emery]] (digitally aged to appear closer to Cutter's biological age), while {{Plain|[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3841651/ Faye Kingslee]}} was recast as [[Ellen Anders|Professor Anders]] due to scheduling conflicts with her previous voice actress [[Wikipedia:Kim Mai Guest|Kim Mai Guest]].<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/warzone-firefight-sneak-peek '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Warzone Firefight Sneak Peek'']</ref> | ||
After the announcement of ''Halo Wars 2'' | After the announcement of ''Halo Wars 2'', Creative Assembly went on to publicly advertise positions working on the game.<ref>[http://creative-assembly.com/jobs/halowars '''Creative Assembly's website''' ''Halo Wars Jobs'']</ref> | ||
343 during development of the game planned out how missions would progress down one of the arms of the Ark. They also made a map coordinate system for the Ark, and Kenneth Peters stated this was done to calculate pelican travel time to each location for the campaign, and note the exact time the mission started. However, this was cut from the game as it was starting to get complicated during development.{{Ref/YouTube|Id=Lorestream|fYaxRoAf96s|HALO|Halo Lore Stream: The Halo Array|Y=2018|M=04|D=06|343 discuss the the Halo Array}} | 343 during development of the game planned out how missions would progress down one of the arms of the Ark. They also made a map coordinate system for the Ark, and Kenneth Peters stated this was done to calculate pelican travel time to each location for the campaign, and note the exact time the mission started. However, this was cut from the game as it was starting to get complicated during development.{{Ref/YouTube|Id=Lorestream|fYaxRoAf96s|HALO|Halo Lore Stream: The Halo Array|Y=2018|M=04|D=06|343 discuss the the Halo Array}} | ||