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Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem
Posted By: kornman00 <kornman00@gmail.com>	Date: 2/29/12 7:10 p.m.
In Response To: Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem (TDSpiral) : I'm curious- what do they think went wrong with cinematics? Could you sum up : what they said? : I would buy the issue, but I don't have a whole lot of money at the moment :\ Most of it was related to technical issues (streaming, syncing glitches, animations, etc). "Saber was going to replace all character animations with mocapped data and add finger and facial animation." As you may know, the original game wasn't animated by fancy pants mocap tech. Since they were re-using the original dialogue, they had to try and get mocap actors (they don't say if any of them were the original VO actors, I'm assuming not) to accurately lipsync the dialogue. They ended up hand tweaking the results, which they still weren't too happy with. Also (too lazy to paraphrase this), "...we realized that sometimes we went too far with our attempts to improve upon the original experience. For example, by using a real-life female mocap actor for Cortana and having the actor play out Cortana’s emotions we made the holographic model “too dramatic.” Yes, the animations were perfectly smooth, but that exaggerated emotions being acted out affected the “artificial computerized feel” of Cortana’s character in the game." Hopefully that will quell your curiosity until you're able to read the full article yourself (there's a few more tidbits in the cinematics section)

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GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	kornman00	2/28/12 4:45 p.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	Louis Wu	2/28/12 6:11 p.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	RC Master	2/28/12 6:53 p.m.
Thanks! *NM*	Louis Wu	2/28/12 6:55 p.m.
Lol, just beat me to it. :-) *NM*	GrimBrother One	2/28/12 7:02 p.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	kornman00	2/28/12 7:03 p.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	TDSpiral	2/29/12 3:43 a.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	kornman00	2/29/12 7:10 p.m.
Grabbed	davidfuchs	2/28/12 9:55 p.m.
Re: GDM March Issue: HA10 Postmortem	scarab	2/29/12 3:07 a.m.