The Complete Guide to Videogame Performance Directing

This book teaches you the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. It teaches the nuts and bolts of directing videogame performance on the motion capture floor and in the voiceover booth.

Tom Keegan trained as an actor, movement artist, and director, performing in theaters throughout the US and Europe. He worked in animation at HannäBarbera Studios and Universal Cartoon Studios before transitioning to videogames in 1998, where he has performance-directed some of the most popular and successful videogames of the last 25 years. His award-winning work includes AAA franchises such as Battlefield, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Need for Speed, Dead Rising, and Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners. He received a BAFTA nomination for his work on Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. He is best known for his direction on Jedi: Fallen Order, Jedi: Survivor, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Throughout the year, Tom offers classes in acting and directing through his company, TomK Studios. www.tomkeegan.net

Introduction: Crying to the Virtual Gods: CD-ROMS, 1. Beyond the Ones and Zeros, 2. Three Indispensable Tools: Place, Time, Action, 3. Finding Spine and Subtext, 4. Analyzing the Script, 5. Working with Actors, 6. The Director's Most Important Job, 7. Casting the Videogame, 8. Workshop and Rehearsal, 9. Directing in the Volume, 10. Directing in the Voiceover Booth, 11. Surviving and Thriving as a Videogame Performance Director, Appendix A, Glossary, Index