animotion3d
20-12-2004, 04:35 PM
<P>hi everyone</P>
<P>last night i saw promo of "Polar Express".</P>
<P>its awesome, the kind of animation, surrealism and vfx they created is fantastic.</P>
<P>They put 152 markers on only face to capture the motion to animate the 3d</P>
<P>character. so guys, guess how many they would have been set on the whole body? and you just watch the moment of cloths and hair of each character, man, we must admit that those sony pictures imageworks guys did it.</P>
<P>any way, i was wondering that is motion capture end of art in animation, i mean, look at the pixar movies , those men use keyframing a lot , as they have to because they just cant put markers on fish to animate nemo.</P>
<P>but its more cartoony style and here in polar express they have achieved surrealism, the director Rober Zemeckis (director of forest gump) said he didnt want to make this in live action and in traditional animation either, so they thought why not to make a digitally rendered movie.</P>
<P>motion capture is much more technical rather than pure art, which is traditional keyframe animation. i mean you can let your mind go as wild as you want it to.</P>
<P>so here is polar express, releasing shortly...</P>
<P>a perfect christmas present to enjoy for animators, filmmakers and kids,</P>
<P>we are in all three categories........ i guess ....!<IMG src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0"></P>
<P>last night i saw promo of "Polar Express".</P>
<P>its awesome, the kind of animation, surrealism and vfx they created is fantastic.</P>
<P>They put 152 markers on only face to capture the motion to animate the 3d</P>
<P>character. so guys, guess how many they would have been set on the whole body? and you just watch the moment of cloths and hair of each character, man, we must admit that those sony pictures imageworks guys did it.</P>
<P>any way, i was wondering that is motion capture end of art in animation, i mean, look at the pixar movies , those men use keyframing a lot , as they have to because they just cant put markers on fish to animate nemo.</P>
<P>but its more cartoony style and here in polar express they have achieved surrealism, the director Rober Zemeckis (director of forest gump) said he didnt want to make this in live action and in traditional animation either, so they thought why not to make a digitally rendered movie.</P>
<P>motion capture is much more technical rather than pure art, which is traditional keyframe animation. i mean you can let your mind go as wild as you want it to.</P>
<P>so here is polar express, releasing shortly...</P>
<P>a perfect christmas present to enjoy for animators, filmmakers and kids,</P>
<P>we are in all three categories........ i guess ....!<IMG src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0"></P>