As motion capture technology has grown in the world of game development, actors and technicians alike have sought ways to fill fake stages with objects and scenery that can motivate actors' performances. In games like Star Wars Outlaws, actors are tasked not just with acting out dramatic cutscenes, but sometimes doing so with creatures big and small that a human being can't easily be subbed in for.
One such creature in Outlaws is Nix, a one-of-a-kind Axolotl-like creature called a "merqaal" who helps player character Kay Vess (played by Humberly González) on her heists, and joins her for some delicious meals from street vendors across the galaxy. With Nix attached to Vess'…