> > Pixar and Disney will remain down the cartoon look, that is, cartoonish
> > models with cartoony proportions filled with realistic materials and
> > lights and *hand animated* for better performance than any one actor.
>
> 1. Pixar *is* Disney.

It's not.

> 2. I see motion capture as the future.


drawing exhaggerated pictures frame by frame and then flipping the pages when
you can just photograph people and flip the photos automatically.  Well, turns
out animators enjoyed the idea of automated page flipping...

> It gives you far more expression
> with far less work.

It gives you far *less* expression with less work.  Really, not even Jim Carrey
would be able to match the performance of Linguini in Ratatoille.  Even facial
expressions carry out much more punch when hand-animated rather than performed
by an actor.  Cartoons exaggerate everything.

> > Avatar came up with grown-up smurfed thundercats
>
> Great visuals, a little light on story, and the pacing was really wonky.
> Still, I guess it's not like *I* could have done any better...


Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves.  I was saying how they opted for fantasy
characters to get out of the UV.
>
> > http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=113952
>
> Doesn't look especially great to me, but maybe I'm analysing it too much.

Aside from the hair -- can't blame a sculptor for not getting that quite right
-- I wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a real person.  Back on topic:
it's way better than all the UV models cited here.  Artists and technique are
ready, it seems Hollywood and the audiences are not.  I think games will get
there before movies: there's no actor on scene and having great looking
characters is a must.  But even in Hollywood it'll eventually be the norm:  why
bother reshooting the same scene countless times because either the performance
wasn't great, the lighting conditions didn't quite match the director's vision
or some extra went astray when you can simply digitize everything and hand
tweak?  Yep, animators will be giving a hand to actors in getting their
Oscars... ;)

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