Animation SpinMeister on 10 Mar 2006 05:30 pm
Spore: Procedural Animation, the Opposite of Rotoscoping
Video presentation of Spore shows a procedurally animated game that allows you to build 3-D characters that possess behavior, such as “monkeys with guns” that wander around in procedurally generated 3-D worlds. Looks like way more fun and creative, faster and crazier than rotoscoping. Playing with artificial life, is sort of the opposite of tracing previously filmed live action. I guess if you generate a really great scene in Spore, you could record it and then rotoscope it, if you really enjoy doing that sort of thing.
Description from Google Video:
Further Spore threads:
- EA web site for Spore, funny flash trailer cartoon
- A related game, kkrieger
- Discussion @ CGTalk Forum
- Will Wright @ Wikipedia
- Karl Sims, long time mad scientist in genetic animation.
