How mocap impacts player feel, and fluidity While feel refers to how much control a player ‘feels’ like they have over a character, fluidity is more about how well your animations blend when transitioning between animations. You can significantly impact these elements in-program, but a motion...
Sure, it’s possible to create your dream game by yourself, become internet-famous, make a million bucks, and retire in the next three years - but the reality is that you’ll have a much better chance at success if you join a game studio first. ...
Save the set-up. Once you are happy with the set up, save the file using a descriptive filename like the performers name plus the date. I would recommend creating a new set up file every time the performer removes their suit or the marker set-up is changed as this will affect the wa...
The motion capture process for that game looks much more sophisticated than what Hazelight Studios is using, but A Way Out looks no worse for the basic setup. My favorite scenes that the developer has shown in this video include studio founder Joseph Fares leaping into the arms of a co-...
Part of that is about having the sense of lethal precision to what the samurai is doing. He’s moving very intentionally. He’s staying balanced. There’s a purpose to every move he makes. Having our Japanese historical sword fighting expert with us in the mocap suit, he...
Take the roles of the apes in War of the Planet of the Apes for example. The ability to embody the characters’ dominant physicality was only achieved by casting physically-imposing actors. However, facial expressions and body language can be digitally rendered in so...
In the live action version, Kazinsky, wearing the grey skintight mocap suit — which Jones refers to as "silver pajamas and a helmet" with two cameras — delivers his lines and spits. This is followed by a video scene of the CGI character, all in greyscale without lighting, using just ...
is a two-way street. He tells me about motion capturing for Roy Jones Jr., maybe the most uniquely elusive boxer of all time. While Habib was generally happy with the results, Jones wasn’t sold that anyone could imitate him and told Habib he was coming over to do his own mocap. ...
best exemplified by an in-house mocap studio of impressive scope for an independent, carefully customized to best suit Hazelight’s co-op design where most cutscenes focus on dual protagonists. And I have to give a special shout out to whoever christened the studio cinema room, naming it afte...
to find, and plenty of on-deck partying to be had. Our group gets ready for what should be the dive trip of a lifetime. As the day unfolds, and a storm rolls in, their trip soon changes into something much more sinister and terrifying. Put it t...