"Animators who frown on motion files, and believe everything should be hand keyframed (I have to laugh at this one)." Me too, tell this to the animators that have several gold statues on their shelf presented for 'excelance in animation' or visual effects animation. They used motion capture to do it. Star Wars and Star Trek have made extensive use of motion capture for some of the more non humanoid aliens. Try that in keyframe, while staying in budget, ain't gonna happen.

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