rockstar made 600,000 animations by hand because apparently 55,000 was embarrassing

rockstar says gta 6 has well over 600,000 animations. gta 5 had about 55,000. rdr2 had around 300,000. and before somebody starts screaming AI, rockstar also told press they did not use generative ai to build this thing. so yes, thousands of humans apparently spent years handcrafting enough animation data for me to immediately sprint into a folding chair and ruin the scene. this is the first stat from the official preview cycle that actually made the scale of the game click for me.