Message from @velvitonator
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High-res texture and models, and the tech to render them efficiently, are pretty well-known
It's just too much is done manually
or maybe less then a decade really
Although that's changing some, e.g. textures are often built with Substance these days
Which procedurally generates PBR-grade textures
Animations are still really manual
As is modeling
thats cuz you can't really generalise those things
I think you could do a lot more than is currently done
motion detection can help
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
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
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?