LOS ANGELES – Aaron Staton doesn’t like watching himself on “Mad Men.”
It makes the 33-year-old actor uneasy when it comes time to step back in front of the boozy AMC drama’s cameras to portray slick ad account executive Ken Cosgrove. That’s not the case when he’s played as himself in “L.A. Noire,” Rockstar Games’ upcoming murder-mystery saga set in 1947 Los Angeles and starring Staton as ambitious police detective Cole Phelps.
“I think it’s because there was all of this technology involved,” said Staton, who has played about 20 minutes of the game, which is set for release May 17. “I feel removed enough that I can appreciate all the elements. There are portions of the final product incorporated in a way that tell the story of a moment in a way that I couldn’t have predicted.”
Staton’s performance was digitized using two different methods. The blond, blue-eyed actor’s face and voice were captured with MotionScan, a new system that more accurately records the human face than previous technologies. It required him to sit in a chair and recite his lines while being watched by 32 cameras and only moving his head in 45-degree angles.
To capture Staton’s motion — walking, jumping and
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