Either way... if you believe the process is or is not true animation, certainly the resulting product is. That's what counts anyway... the impact your art produces on it's audience. These days, mocap is used heavily in real productions, and is always combined with hand keyframing. I suspect hand-keying an animation will decrease even more in the future as new technology introduces more accurate and easily obtained automated motion development. It will never completely go away, but fully dynamic motion production is on the rise more than ever.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.