imagination304 opened this issue on Apr 01, 2008 ยท 15 posts
wakingdreams posted Thu, 03 April 2008 at 3:29 PM
Quote - Thank you, wakingdreams.
BTW, assuming all of motions and face expression of a new 3d movie is completely created with motion capture applying to 3d figures , will you appreciate it? Will you think it is very real?
Thanks in advance
I think I would appriciate it if I didn't know motion cap was used...meaning that the animation just in general looks real. Like someone else said, motion cap can be a good -tool- in animations but some of the best work I have seen was certainly not 100% motion cap. It was tweaked or in some cases done from scratch.
I am by no means great at animation myself, but in my attempts to get better at it, I do try to do as much of it on my own, or when using a tool like mo-cap adjust it to feel a bit less generic.
Now, that said if mo-cap is used for 100% of a film and while watching it I don't feel like I am just watching motion captured movements, that is I am not visually saying to myself "that is motion capture" then I can certainly say I would appriciate it. And of course I'd appriciate it more if the story was worth watching as well.
But if I was watching and it blatently felt like I was watching nothing but a series of motion capture edited to make a film, I think it would lose me a little. I could ignore it if the story was downright amazing, but still I think the goal of anyone using mo-cap for a movie would be to use it as a starting point, not the end all, of a animation sequence.
just my opinion, and I am certainly not great at it myself yet.
Here are a couple examples of my animations (trailers for the fan film animation I am working on) to sort of see where I am at in my animating...though becuase it is in a trailer format it is only quick flashes.