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Re: Procedural Animation
That's kind of the problem though isn't it? How does an animator animate unpredictable motions that are out of their control? The things like secondary motion on the ears are hard to do when you have 3 animations blending together. How do you animate a scabbard reacting to being hit by 2 forces at once when they don't know… -
Re: Procedural Animation
I wonder if Blond believes it's the quality of the animators that's the problem, from what I've seen that isn't the case. Plenty of animators come to games from VFX because, surprisingly, it's more stable than the film industry. They don't splash down like superstars showing lowly game animators how it's done, they have to… -
Re: Procedural Animation
Hmm yeah.. I totally see your point, I didn't think of it that way to be honest. Regarding the Chua, I took the jump just as an example, but yeah now that you've said it, if you use the spring damper system on the body and maybe offset the sections (stomach area, upper body, head etc.) you could create procedural overlap… -
Re: Procedural Animation
This talk was really informative, thanks a lot for sharing Makkon. :) It's really interesting to see how the workload was reduced with his procedural techniques and to get a glimpse into the process of an obviously talented developer. What I am thinking though, I might be wrong of course, is that in many cases there should… -
Re: Procedural Animation
Through the talk he made it clear that the system is developing as it goes along. Constant iteration of this system will fuel the look thus raising the quality. (if you believe that the animation is subpar) It's also worth mentioning that I believe the majority of these cycles, as he said in the talk, are running from… -
Re: Procedural Animation
MiAlx, I do think you missed the point. The idea of procedural animation is to take out the repetitive and draining parts of animation, and allow the animator to focus on the performance. Things like secondary animation can be automated, and many character dynamics that place the character in the environment are controlled… -
Re: Procedural Animation
There's a lot of things that can be done with non-linear interpolation of keyframes, clever constraints, good use of IK systems, and ragdoll behaviors. We really don't need Endorphin or Euphoria for this sort of thing. The great thing is that the systems and methods he talked about are not expensive, nor do they affect the…
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