Pendulum Alter-Ego System > any other animation engine(56K )

Very cool. If you take into consideration the date of the source engine though, there facial animations are pretty good.

One of the problems of becoming overly realistic with models and animation is that you get the uncanny valley effect ala Beowolf and Mass Effect. Adding some artstyle in can help with this I think, people say Crysis is realistic, it is, but it's also slightly stylized.

Very cool. If you take into consideration the date of the source engine though, there facial animations are pretty good.

One of the problems of becoming overly realistic with models and animation is that you get the uncanny valley effect ala Beowolf and Mass Effect. Adding some artstyle in can help with this I think, people say Crysis is realistic, it is, but it's also slightly stylized.

Kez1984

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

mmlgamer

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

[QUOTE="mmlgamer"]

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

bobbetybob

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

Ya, I'm an animator, so this stuff scares me! :P We're the ones that should be scared, not the actors.

[QUOTE="mmlgamer"]

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

bobbetybob

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

indeed :P

i thought the old man on the 2nd picture was real O_0!!!

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"][QUOTE="mmlgamer"]

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

12345yon

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

indeed :P

i thought the old man on the 2nd picture was real O_0!!!

I just saw the video on youtube and the old man ias amazing, he looks realistic, and there's not even many flaws, he pretty much looks like a real person pulling silly faces. He has the detail too like the wrinkles he looks more realistic, the other two still look quite fake, they need the sort of skin detail the guys in Crysis have.

Very cool. If you take into consideration the date of the source engine though, there facial animations are pretty good.

Kez1984

this.

despite the sources engines age it still has fantastic facial animations and far better than many newer games, it just shows what can be acheive with a little hard work.

[QUOTE="12345yon"][QUOTE="bobbetybob"][QUOTE="mmlgamer"]

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

bobbetybob

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

indeed :P

i thought the old man on the 2nd picture was real O_0!!!

I just saw the video on youtube and the old man ias amazing, he looks realistic, and there's not even many flaws, he pretty much looks like a real person pulling silly faces. He has the detail too like the wrinkles he looks more realistic, the other two still look quite fake, they need the sort of skin detail the guys in Crysis have.

apparently Dark Sector is the game that made use of this tech... Amit_Raj

Really? I liked the game, but the animations were nothing to write home about.

Very cool. If you take into consideration the date of the source engine though, there facial animations are pretty good.

One of the problems of becoming overly realistic with models and animation is that you get the uncanny valley effect ala Beowolf and Mass Effect. Adding some artstyle in can help with this I think, people say Crysis is realistic, it is, but it's also slightly stylized.

Kez1984

thus making it better than real life :P

Eh... what's the point? Try as you may, I don't feel we'll ever reach some state of facial animation that could ever get to "real" as people would like.

Uncanny, unatural, or just many other little things can ruin a "lifelike" facial expression.

Before those bring up games like Half-Life, ME, and think I'm bashing on so many other games that are doing good on it, body langauge in general to me is something you can never bring to "life" in digital animation

I prefer more cartoonish effects, though it does depend on where the game's sense of immersion is going for. Yet, all the time in the world with the best devs/artist at hand would never create the most "lifelike" animations for me.

[QUOTE="12345yon"][QUOTE="bobbetybob"][QUOTE="mmlgamer"]

Eventually, we won't need real actors for movies.

bobbetybob

We still will sort of, you still need an actor for the motion capturing, and for the voice acting so they'll still have jobs =p

indeed :P

i thought the old man on the 2nd picture was real O_0!!!

I just saw the video on youtube and the old man ias amazing, he looks realistic, and there's not even many flaws, he pretty much looks like a real person pulling silly faces. He has the detail too like the wrinkles he looks more realistic, the other two still look quite fake, they need the sort of skin detail the guys in Crysis have.

its amazing how games have become this..bit era, now HD era, whuts next?