~Lisa~ Since I saw motion capture in a video game...

2011-12-28T14:10:57.785-05:00

~Lisa~

Since I saw motion capture in a video game called 'Enslaved: Odyssey To The West' I've been awed by it ever since. Motion capture really brings the expressions and human body language that even for animators still isn't possible to create. It really brings life into a character, seperating them from a animated model to something believable and alive.

Interesting. What on earth would Pixar be doing wi...

2011-12-26T17:01:40.024-05:00

Interesting. What on earth would Pixar be doing with motion capture technology....?

As far as I know this is meant to capture stereo w...

2011-12-26T13:37:08.217-05:00

As far as I know this is meant to capture stereo with a single camera and lens, meant to do smaller stereo rigs.

Interesting, but I still don't think this has ...

2011-12-25T17:10:59.488-05:00

Interesting, but I still don't think this has anything to do with Motion Capture specifically. Pixar has talked about moving into live action filmmaking in the past, right? This patent would seem more applicable to advancements stereoscopic photography.

Mocap is not animation, even with this new technol...

2011-12-25T08:49:46.697-05:00

Mocap is not animation, even with this new technology. Since Pixar is an animation studio based on John Lasseter's idea to use the traditional principles of hand-drawn animation in CG, they won't use mocap in any case for character animation.
Anyway, mocap can be used for other things. I can't imagine which things, but am sure Pixar can :)

Light field cameras have no shortage of uses that ...

2011-12-25T02:56:47.763-05:00

Light field cameras have no shortage of uses that have nothing to do with motion capture. They'd be extremely useful for capturing reference. It's also possible that the light field technology came about more or less incidentally out of research into rendering.

I'd be very surprised if Pixar is planning to do anything with motion capture, especially not photoreal motion

Hopefully they don't make the characters too r...

2011-12-24T22:03:40.065-05:00

Hopefully they don't make the characters too realistic.

awesome. bring on the future!

2011-12-24T20:02:15.317-05:00

awesome.
bring on the future!

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