A few clips showing GTA 6 during development have been leaked by a developer who worked on the game. Whilst fans await Trailer 3 from Rockstar, this little bit of something has caused quite a stir.
The pre-release animation work by a long time Rockstar Games employee was first spotted by Reddit user throwaway-sadkid8012. A video on Vimeo titled BC Demo Reel 2025 shows in-development footage of GTA VI along with a bunch of clips from Red Dead Redemption 2, Max Payne 3 and more. The animator has worked on all of those Rockstar Games titles plus Bully, The Warriors, GTA IV and more. The video was posted two months ago but has only just been found.
If you did not think it could be GTA VI footage, the animator labeled the clips as GTA VI in the video description (as seen in the image below). Plus, it shows content from the game which we detail below.
Footage Descriptions
The video has since been removed but many fans have begun posting it across social media. Due to copyright reasons, we cannot show them on our site.
The first two clips shows cleaned up motion capture animations for the player when taking a bike off a stand and parking it. The clip description provided by the animator suggests these bikes will be ridable by the player though they are still labeled as prototype animations.
The bicycle has the LomBike logo. Lombank is a banking company found in GTA IV, V and GTA Online. A building of theirs can be seen in GTA VI Trailer 1.
The bike was spotted in the 2022 gameplay GTA VI leaks and has since been spotted an official screenshot as seen below (above the bus, click to enlarge). This bike is inspired by the Citi Bikes in real life.
The third clip is a woman NPC climbing out of a 4×4 truck. There are two variations of her exiting the truck. The animator states this is a female NPC animation.
Some fans think the model used is an early, low poly model of Lucia which might be true or it could just be a placeholder. Or even this animation is for when you are not playing as Lucia in terms of a transition to gameplay. Similar to how the three protagonists were doing things when you selected them in GTA V’s story.
The Boardwalk Hotel and Ocean Drive plus a number of other buildings can be seen in the background. They are all untextured and aside from the hotel, largely low poly and lack detail. Debug code can also be seen overlayed on the clips.
Rare Insight
Rockstar typically does not allow developers to share work-in-progress pieces from their games. More so games that have not even come out yet. It seems reasonable to assume the animator did not realise this video was public; perhaps it was mistakenly sent from private to public.
It is worth noting that what we see in the video might not make it into the final game aside from the bikes. Game development is iterative and things may be changed. A former environment artist work has worked on GTA VI and Red Dead Redemption 2 does not believe his work will be found in the final game due to how much changes over time. Very little of the work he did on Red Dead 2 can be found in the final game.
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