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

Yeah, my impression is the motivation is more the quality over the cost

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

50% Marketing
30% visuals (animation/graphics/textures)
15% gameplay
4% Testing if you can play the game under ideal circumstances (aka, the user knows what to do)
1% bug removal

I know they are going to have good gameplay

idk ive never seen what hes doing before

and this is where Final Fantasy fell apart, every game after 9 is different.

cant really say much about it either since its behind closed doors stuff of the studio

I'd quibble with the breakdown past visuals, but to there it sounds about right

it depends on the company, most push for visuals cuz you can sell visuals in trailers

you can't sell fun gameplay in a trailer

theyre developing their own pipeline so yea

Well, it's also not all "visuals"

commercial is ALL about visuals

A lot of animation is intimately tied to gameplay

you wouldn't need to sell a game on the trailer if you brought back demos

Though in practice cinematics are still disproportionately expensive