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Title: Lifelike Animation
Post by: sjefen on August 20, 2008, 10:05:01 AM
Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games.

"Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films
and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology."

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece)

- Terje
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: old_blaggard on August 20, 2008, 01:19:05 PM
Hello Emily :P!  I saw this a couple of days ago on Slashdot.  Pretty darn impressive!
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: rcallicotte on August 20, 2008, 03:19:30 PM
The mouth still looks unnatural, but so do some people's.   ;D
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: Tangled-Universe on August 20, 2008, 03:53:44 PM
The link is dead???

edit: hmmm...works now suddenly
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: Seth on August 23, 2008, 07:53:38 PM
damn amazing !
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: lightning on August 24, 2008, 12:54:23 AM
thats pretty amazing i knew AMD would be behind this i find AMD processors so much better than Intel especially for games :)
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: 3DGuy on August 24, 2008, 07:52:44 PM
It says it's completely CG, but if you have seen the website of the company you'll see it's only the face that's CG.
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: Seth on August 24, 2008, 08:25:48 PM
hair included ?
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: JimB on August 25, 2008, 12:18:15 AM
We're hard wired for recognising the smallest nuance in a face (unless you have autism). If it's a bit wrong it's utterly wrong. Dead eyes. Sorry, I'm a stickler for that kind of thing  ;)
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: rcallicotte on August 25, 2008, 09:35:59 AM
I liked the first Final Fantasy, but even then the CGI just got in the way of the movie.  And that was pretty cool CGI.



Quote from: JimB on August 25, 2008, 12:18:15 AM
Sorry, I'm a stickler for that kind of thing  ;)
Title: Re: Lifelike Animation
Post by: Xpleet on August 28, 2008, 01:53:41 AM
Honestly, this should be possible with the source engine, but they horribly overdid the character anims in hl2.