Message from @velvitonator
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but animating manually is hell
A lot of the animator's/modeler's time is not really spent on the unique flavor
motion detection only helps for humanoid actions
this is some what related, and just an interesting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg1oOiAEDaE
well yeah
It's mostly the rote work
And then you have motion capture and voice acting.
Motion Detection = motion capture?
voice acting is easy
yea motion capture is waht i meant
Mo-cap also has a lot of manual effort
yes but it cuts time extremely cuz you can create natural movement
sure but it can help in getting more natural movements
Easy
Capture quality is usually too shitty, so a high-level animator will usually spend quite a bit of time cleaning them up to be useful
if thats what ur aiming for
but you still gotta pay thoe people.
those*
idk if it cuts time, but it does allow for much more human feel
well i mean in comparison
if someone has to animate a "natural" walk vs one you recorded through motion capture
there are techniques
but this goes back to the point, too much focused on graphics. you could cut most AAA budgets in half, tell them that is coming out of your graphics budget, and end up with a better game
I've seen some animators crank out really nice stuff fairly quickly, though
like i said, graphics is what they sell games on
if u know what ur doing and have the models set up well you can animate really fast
you can't translate gameplay quality / fun into a 1 minute video
Yeah, there are a lot of...interesting incentives around that
For example
The suits holding the purse?
Usually not players
Normally they watch someone else play
So visuals go a long way to persuading them to keep paying the studio
Also, budgets could likely not go down by as much as half
Maybe 20%
my best buddy is currently creating a new pipeline method for facial animations
its just about making the sale,
And you can't go "wow this gameplay is so much fun" without letting the supposed buyer experience it
But TBH I'm not that familiar with a particular breakdown
@tritrium Is this the vertex streaming stuff or the traditional skinned way?
This is why Nintendo has always gotten my money