Black Myth: Wukong's Beth Park says AI removes the "human, chaotic emotion" from game performances

This year's BAFTA Breakthrough 2024 cohort has been announced, and one of the standouts is Beth Park, lead performance director on Black Myth: Wukong, the beautiful video game from Chinese developer Game Science that showed how powerful Unreal Engine 5 can be.

Beth has been working in games for almost six years, starting her career working on Baldur's Gate 3, before moving onto Metaphor: Refantazio and Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 and Black Myth: Wukong, for which she became recognised by BAFTA. Not a bad career roster, all three games have won plaudits in 2024 and are all nominated in the prestigious The Game Awards.

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Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.

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