BG3 Special Guest announcement: Neil Newbon (Astarion)

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Baldur’s Gate 3 fans… are you ready? HDCC Winter 2025 is about to bring the Forgotten Realms to life! Meet the incredible stars behind your favorite characters, dive into the world of BG3, and celebrate the game that took the world by storm. Our first BG3 guest is the amazing Neil Newbon!

Neil has been working as an actor and director in Performance Capture and Voice Over in games, television and films for over 14 years in over 130+ titles. Clients he has worked with internationally include amongst many others : Ubisoft, Sony, Square Enix, Capcom, Larian, CCP, Bethesda, Creative Assembly, Guerilla Games, EA, Axis Animation, Unit Image, MercurySteam, Hi-Rez Studios, Rebellion, RealTime UK, Sumo Digital, Ubisoft, Slingshot Cartel, SuperMassive Games, Codemasters and Dambusters Deep Silver, CI Games, Bungie and on film and TV series projects by Sony, Square Enix, Scott Free, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Impossible Factual and he has worked with such international studios as, The Imaginarium, AudioMotion, Sony, Goodbye Kansas, Creative Assembly, Digic Motion, Digital Frontier, Dambusters, Square Enix, Quantic Dream and Centroid3d. 

He has just also completed work on Baldur’s Gate 3 as Voice/performance director – recent work includes Deliver Us Mars, Trailer farms: Happy Together Borderlands 3 trailer, Total War three Kingdoms, as well as NDA AAA film and games. 

As well as still performing, Neil is the founder/ mentor at his own company mentoring new performers, game devs and directors for full performance in games, Performance Captured Academy ( part of his Performance Captured Ltd Group) and is also now anAction/ Performance Director and has just completed another NDA AAA unannounced title.

He is also a producer/director with his company Performance Captured Productions having completed their 9th co-production, specialising in consulting, directing, casting and coordinating performance capture shoots internationally. Past clients include Square Enix on Final Fantasy XVI, Larin Studios Baldurs Gate 3, Cloud Imperiums IAE2951/2 series for Star Citizen, Capcom NDA Animated film and many more. 

Meet Neil in person at HDCC!

Photobooth: €70


Autograph on print: €85 | on pop €100


Selfie: €60


Selfie + Autograph: €120


Phone call, video, or voice recording: €100


Short quote: €12 | Long quote: €25

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