Resident Evil 3's NEMESIS and Nikolai, Neil Newbon

(TSAP S03E06)


Sam Hughes speaks with Actor Neil Newbon about his work in
Resident Evil 3 as NEMESIS (Performance Capture), Nikolai
(Capture & VO) and others, his acting career, performance
capture and more!


Neil Newbon is a Professional Actor and Voice Over Artist,
working in Film, Television, Theatre as well as high-profile AAA
Video Games in Full Performance Capture, specialising in Martial
Arts Stunts and Combat. He is based in London and Los Angeles.


Neil began his training at the internationally
acclaimed National Youth Theatre, he went
on to study Method Acting, the work of Yat Malmgren and many
other craft techniques with the renowned Giles
Foreman Centre of Acting. Neil began his professional
career at the Royal Court Theatre, Bloomsbury
Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He quickly
found work in Television and Film and has continued to work
professionally for over 15 years,  and branched out into the
exciting new media of Performance Capture and Voice Over in which
he has been working consistently for over 8 years. Neil has
been a part of BAFTA GAMES CREW for 3 years and
is now a Full BAFTA member. Neil also now acts
as a Performance Consultant/ Action Director for games and has
given panel talks and round-tables at events, such as
Develop 2017 on working with Actors and getting
the best from them in both Performance Capture and Voice Over.


Neil alongside Award winning Artist and Director Saleta Losada
has founded Performance Captured Ltd group,
which specialises in casting for games, performance capture
consultation and production and also the Performance
Captured Academy providing Full Performance Capture
Courses by Professionals for Professionals’ based in world famous
Ealing Studios in which Neil is the main mentor.


Recent Credits include: Lead role in ‘Planet of the
Apes: Last Frontier’ by Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium,
supporting leads in ‘Wallis’ by Viacom and
‘Detroit:Become Human’ by Quantic Dream with
Jesse Williams and Clancy Brown and ‘Gangs Of
London’ directed by award winning Corin Hardy for HBO.


Special thanks to Toivo Kallio for editing.


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