Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Motion Capture Is Your Friend - by Shawn Kelly

There's an elitist vein of snobbery running through our industry right now, where some "keyframe" artists like to stand up on their pedestal and look down their noses at animators working with mocap. Some of these animation purists even have the unbelievable audacity to proclaim themselves the only "true" animators, and that animators working on photorealistic films such as Lord of the Rings or performance captured films such as Beowulf are not "animators" at all, but rather some tech-heads doing grunt work or something.

How quickly they've forgotten that not so long ago, the 2D animation industry was saying the exact same thing about them!


Read the whole article @ CG Tantra

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pleasee.. dont tell me he is going to introduce a new animation workflow using mocap...lol

Jean-Denis Haas said...

He should, a lot of people need to get educated about that subject.

Anonymous said...

oh ya that would help...may be.. for the people who shoot reference and change it a little...

Jean-Denis Haas said...

Or those who think that mocap is doing all the work for you.