Illustrator Stephen Collins in "The Guardian" imagines a CGI makeover for Aardman's clay character Morph.
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Video gameplay is about to get a lot more realistic. Game producer Activision unveiled this new demo yesterday at the Game Developers Conference. Uncanny or not, the progresss in computer animation has been remarkable. Real-time rendering techniques today look far more impressive than any rendering from a decade ago:
This animated character is being rendered in real-time on current video card hardware, using standard bone animation. The rendering techniques, as well as the animation pipeline are being presented at GDC 2013, “Next Generation Character Rendering” on March 27. The original high resolution data was acquired from Light Stage Facial Scanning and Performance Capture by USC Institute for Creative Technologies, then converted to a 70 bones rig, while preserving the high frequency detail in diffuse, normal and displacement composite maps. It is being rendered in a DirectX11 environment, using advanced techniques to faithfully represent the character’s skin and eyes.
More details on Jorge Jimenez’s blog.
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Scenes from the new Tintin movie?
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When I started watching this animated PSA against global warming, I was taken with the realistic and ever-so-slightly anthropomorphic animals whose lives are affected by climate change, but the short soon takes a rather shockingly disturbing turn.
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yikes, that was depressing and rightfully so
This actually made me feel bad… Beautiful movie, really short, extremely depressing, perfect.
The animation is top notch. But the concept isn’t really new so it will be hard to stay in people’s mind.
All the animals wouldn’t commit suicide
if there really was global warming. They
would just kill all the cows for farting
so much (too much methane in the atmosphere - Ha ha ha!)
Ooh… I saw this on MyToons. Yep, pretty disturbing - the part with the kangaroo and the train really got me.
I don’t like this film. Not because it’s not pretty or because it’s too disturbing. I don’t like it because it pretends that animals have emotions. And it reproduces the old stupid idea that cute animals are the ones we should worry about.
Sorry.
oh man oh man oh man. this is such an insane video. it’s hard to take seriously. What were the writers/creators of this short thinking!? Haha so ridiculous.
“I don’t like it because it pretends that animals have emotions.”
Actually, emotions is one thing animals do have (often the way they’re expressed is different from the way the same emotion is expressed by a human being; hence - we can’t emotionally read some of the stuff, that’s why we often anthropomorphise animals in art, etc.), it’s sometimes missing in humans, though. Oh, and… never heard of animals being depressed? You haven’t done your research then - http://www.biopsychiatry.com/animals.htm
However, if you mean that the anthropomorphisation of animals in the video is a bit too sentimental, I do agree with you. It seems manipulative. I don’t see a link between climate and depression. With the “if you give up, they give up” line left out it’d make a nice subtext of homo sapiens unnaturaly performing global suicide. But now it’s just sentimental…
One way or another it does make a point.
Yet I find the bare statistics much more scarier and disturbing.