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WE’RE QUITE THE fan of spotting when animals look like famous humans. (Presenting the Animals That Look Like Bill Murray tumblr…)
Animation has taken anthropomorphism to a whole new level. This video from Disney’s Research Hub, based in Pittsburgh in the US, breaks down the steps by which the studio take human motion data and uses it to animate objects so that they move like… us.
Check out the anglepoise lamp emoting ‘sad’ at 2.35. Or the angry penguin straight afterwards. Cute.
(DisneyResearchLabs/Youtube)
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Motion capture can only do so much. The raw data still needs cleanup, with a lot of it probably getting thrown out by the animator. I’m pretty sure Pixar used key frame animation for their shots with their lamp Luxo Jr. Animating convincingly in 2D or 3D is very difficult to learn.
I dunno how ‘…you make an inanimate object move like a human…’.
I’ll phone Enda’s handler and ask.
Durh, with a computie.
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