Hi Guys, Mass Effect has been making the rounds online because of its animation so I thought I'd start a discussion on game animation in general. http://www.vg247.com/2017/03/16/mass-effect-andromedas-animations-have-already-reduced-it-to-a-laughing-stock/ I assume the Mass Effect situation was more a combination of time,…
I've haven't played the game yet as a yet. but from what i see it has a big PS3/Ps2 feel to it when it comes to it's animations. quite interesting since it's 2017 it's been a while to see game animations such as facial animation and Character/Motion capture animation such as this. You think they was pressed with time and…
Even the trailer had these issues... The issues I saw seem more like technical problems, rather than animators making mistakes. Pretty poor! Going to guess it was due to time constraints rather than bad artists/leads. No artist would want to push out these issues as final :( Best game animations? Overwatch for sure - a…
https://soundcloud.com/user-439235764/ep-18-mass-effect-animationpaloza An industry animator (Sr tech animator on Bioshock Infinite) talking about this subject. Edit: Another article! http://www.animstate.com/round-table-mass-effect-andromeda/
I'll try not to tread any ground that has already been covered, but other games that have had issues are EA's sports games. FIFA immediately came to mind. Though it's mostly physics and procedural animation that are the issue in that case. Games that have great animation- Skullgirls. I'm always impressed by hand drawn…
Have to say, generally I find animation bugs in games kind of amusing, stuff like the example .gif you posted seems it could be an IK problem maybe? These kind of things sometimes happen and sometimes don't. Whether that should fall onto the animators, technical animators or be picked up on in QA is up to the company I…
Oh man. Good topic. Note: I used to work at Bioware. I haven't been there in over 2 years. I do NOT speak for the company in any way. These are just my personal thoughts and assumptions based on my time there. So, I've seen a ton of clips from ME:A showing the bad animation, and I can honestly say that very little of it…
I'm saying all this without having had a chance to see the final product and this is purely my opinion. @_adamturnbull thanks for starting the discussion I was talking about this with people at work today. I think this does not reflect on the animators there at all. I think, and this is just me speculating, the locomotion…
I never played any Mass Effect games, looking at this as an outsider., Most of it seems tech related... either something broke mid play or wasn't working as they should. Some of the facial animations people are pissin on is actually quite good.…