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Subject: Final Fantasy Starts June 11th


BlueRain ( ) posted Sat, 07 July 2001 at 12:18 PM ยท edited Thu, 01 August 2024 at 10:30 PM
MaterialForge ( ) posted Sat, 07 July 2001 at 1:40 PM

I am SO looking forward to this. The character work is amazing. The skin textures, especially on Donald Sutherland's character (I forget the name) are nothing short of awesome. But what really intrigues me is the motion of the characters - I think it makes them much more realistic. Does anyone know or heard how they did it? Motion capture? Tedious keyframing? Can't wait!


Scarab ( ) posted Sat, 07 July 2001 at 2:48 PM

Ummm....do you mean JULY 11th? Scarab


otaku ( ) posted Sat, 07 July 2001 at 4:55 PM

They used Maya for the modeling and their own version of motion capture for many of the animations. The new issue of Cinefex has a good article on it and there is to be a "making of..." book out this month some time around the 21st. Technicaly it will be an amazing movie I just hope the story is half as good as the visuals. There is also a full page photo of the lead actress AKI in the June 29/ July 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Spiderman cover) page 37. It's a new photo I haven't seen anywhere else. AKI may just the first virtual supermodel.


nfredman ( ) posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 1:29 AM

This has been one trailer where i definitely look at the people and go, "Nice mesh!" Not going to miss this one.


artnik ( ) posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 2:20 AM

Roeper and Ebert reviewed it on their show today(Saturday). They were both very enthusiastic about it. In fact Ebert did a short segment on the program about actors who exist only in a computer, such as the Shreck characters and those in FF. Ebert coined a word for them I love - he calls them "synthespians". They not only loved the technical and artistic elements, they thought the script was excellent.


BlueRain ( ) posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 7:39 AM

Ha ha yep july 11 sorry


praxis22 ( ) posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 2:56 PM

I was looking at a still from the movie in the "Turm Pallast" in Frankfurt last night, it was a still of Aki lying on a hospital bed or so, and I was thinking, that with the profile shot in that picture and the face shots publicly available, it shouldn't be to hard to "roll your own" especially given that the copy of the image I saw in the UK version of Maxim had mesh shots too. Dare I say that under the bikini she looked "fully functional" Not that you'd be able to tell if you were "joe soap" but being a poser user does have it's advantages :) I don't remember where I read it, but most of the character motion was captured. Though the date on the poster said July 16th, and the English version doesn't reckon to be shown untill the 26th July in Frankfurt. later jb


Karaneli ( ) posted Mon, 09 July 2001 at 10:25 AM

BTW artnik, ebert didnt coin the word "synthespian". The name came from jeff Kleiser and Diana Walczak. in 1987 they started a company that utilized motion capture data to drive a digital mesh, they pioneerd alot of what we use nowdays for motion capture. Just a little piece of trivia :-)


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