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[duke_Qa]

Thought this was omnious for our future as the dominant species of this planet

[Pasidon]

Har. You know you're doing music right when cinder blocks are involved.

[duke_Qa]

That and future killer robots being used for spy shenanigans.

Anyway, came over some article that had this picture in it that I found disturbing.



Apparently from a movie called insidious, which I now might have to find the courage to see. apparently its filled with that good dread and proper scares, so its just the sort of movie I personally hate

[Pasidon]

I didn't like how they presented the movie, so I never bothered. But people keep talking about it at random times... such as this. Then again, people talk about Black Swan all the time too... must I see all movies?

[duke_Qa]

Black swan was another movie I was looking forward to seeing, but still haven't. I guess an opportunity will arrive one day.

Anyway, this little ps3 demonstration was pretty nice:

[Pasidon]

I see they really wanted to show off some new eye movement mechanics quite a bit... That's what I thought was top-notch from that, anyway.

[duke_Qa]

Lip movements were pretty damn fine as well, I believe the mo-cap studio they use to record these sort of movements now have facial capture cam(s?) combined with full body capture, and multiple persons of course. LA noire had to do them separately, which loses a lot of the mood.

I hope they standardize the technology enough soon so that it can be viable for those with a few hundred grand to set up a full mocap studio. I'd love to be in that business.

[Pasidon]

Is that mo-cap? It may be a combination of mo-cap animation with the arm movements and such with some detailed hand-processed animations in there. Most games do that now-days, but not to such detail in many cases.

[duke_Qa]

It is a full-on multiple body+face mocap. they've been bragging about that tech for a while. Here's some article on it:

The five-minute Kara tech demo tells the story of an artificial life born in a robot assembly plant. The touching story of a robot named Kara that discovers emotion and autonomous thought was made all the more evocative by a surprising level of realism and facial detail. It was the result of working with performance capture that captures the voice, the face, the body movements of an actor all at once, Cage said.

There is naturally some hand-processed/keyframed animation in there. You record the actors movements and then you polish those movements with animation "layers" on top, amplifying or moving the position of a limb to suit the situation better.

Edited by duke_Qa, 12 March 2012 - 07:28 AM.

[Pasidon]

While the animation is undeniably good, I hope they don't think their attempted plot line is anything to smirk about. Oh, let's see... similar machines with emotion plot lines:
i-Robot
Mass Effect
Terminator: Salvation & The Sarah Conner Chronicles
Walle (did I spell that right?)
Star Trek
Bicintineal Man

Need I go on?

[duke_Qa]

Just shows that there's plenty of potential in those stories. I'd say Ghost in the shell is a prime example, but apparently its too advanced for people. Battle Angel when James Cameron does that, singularity is a new movie being made by that 2012-director guy, which might be good if they go for a god-machine world-ending singularity. and so on and so forth.

Edited by duke_Qa, 12 March 2012 - 06:23 PM.

[Pasidon]

I think where we previously saw vampires as a trend that ventured into zombies is now venturing into machines... so you'll see that plot recycled quite a bit this year.

[duke_Qa]

http://www.ted.com/t...yN8Pah.facebook

Fun summary of the numbers RIAA and the gang use on piracy.

Also, new Tim Burton comedy movie with Depp as a vampire stuck in the 70s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjg9O7ifwM

[Pasidon]

Oh good... another Tim Burton film with Depp in it... because the public needs more of them.

[duke_Qa]

Back to the Quantic dream and mocap stuff: Here we got a behind the scenes where we get to observe some of the tech they are using. It's quite fascinating, if i get a chance at it I'd love to run such a mocap-studio one day. And they are using my "program of choice", Maya

[Pasidon]

No doubt we'll be seeing more / smaller sensors even after this. More detail!

[duke_Qa]

Don't know how much smaller they can get, I'm more for the hardware getting cheaper and the software getting more optimized. I think these are the ones the school I went to invested in, not that expensive but quite acceptable.

beyond that, being in such a mocap recording session is probably hell, those markers on your face forces you to not touch it, so if you itch or sweat, you can't really start messing around on your own. I guess they have assistants that does make-up and support in that fashion, but its something you don't think about in your day-to-day activities.

Edited by duke_Qa, 26 March 2012 - 07:09 AM.

[duke_Qa]

So, remember machine girl and robo geisha? Japanese splatter movies with plenty of wtf and stuff. Now the guy behind them have made a zombie movie, but with a twist. "Zombie Ass - The toilet of the dead" come from the toilet.

Trailer below, relatively safe but pretty crazy . I love that 0.59 zombie face.

Edited by duke_Qa, 11 April 2012 - 09:51 PM.

[duke_Qa]

It seems that ass-zombies was not a big hit among the Revorians


Anyway, found a youtube celebrity that has some cool videos when I was looking at a indie horror game called slender :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZMBG4Pn3Sg

Fun game to watch others play. Also, the best laugh of the day was hearing his storytelling while playing this happy wheels game.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXO76dbictU
This was my favorite though

[{IP}Solstice]

The commentary on the 2nd one was hilarious.