In Halo 4 do you think that 343 will use motion capture for their cinematics and gameplay?
Why not? They did for Reach’s animations, both body and facial, gameplay and cutscene alike.
> Why not? They did for Reach’s animations, both body and facial, gameplay and cutscene alike.
That was Bungie tho…
In this day and age, you have to.
Yeah, it takes way too much time to get things looking realistic with other methods. Companies either use motion capture or they look fake.
> Yeah, it takes way too much time to get things looking realistic with other methods. Companies either use motion capture or they look fake.
You’ll be surprised what a good animator can pull off with just key frame animation. Besides, it’s not like you can import all the motion capture data directly on to your rig. I assume there is a lot of “cleaning” to be done before it can be used.
Having said that, I’m guessing they will use a combination of both.