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From: pockets@d2.com (Sean Cunningham)
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Subject: Re: motion capture (was Re: Lightwave and anime)
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 11:05:42 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <9409160635.AA22498@rhythm.com> from "Neil Richmond" at Sep 15, 94 11:35:06 pm
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:) A recent commercial using puppeteering and motion capture is the Rice
:) Krispy Treats with a CGI cow creamer. Also, the Shell commercials with
:) the dancing trucks were done with motion capture.
I've seen the Shell commercials. I didn't think they looked too bad, though
they could have used a healthy bit more anticipation (or "antic") on their
actions...I'm sure it would be very difficult to get a live actor to perform
actions with snappy enough moves though.
This is one of the fundamental problems with motion-capture. Good character
animation is supposed to suspend the disbelief of the audience, no? The
audience should feel that however fantastic the character is it has a life of
its own. When you see something that obviously is not a real person but see
it move and behave like a real person the illusion is lost. The end effect is
that of watching an actor in a goofy suit. I do think that having a trained
and skilled pupeteer can help dramaticly as they can force their bodies,
however painfully, into moving very inhumanly.
I haven't seen the Rice Krispy commercial though. What did you think of both?
:) Judge for yourself.
:)
:) neil
:)
:) " Give a skeptic an inch and he'll measure it. "