I know it involves real actors wearing a lot of equipment and moving around to "animate" the characters. I want to say "motion capture", but I don't think that was the name. I remember Donny and Marie Osmond demonstrating it on their talk show once to make "Bill and Hillary Clinton" move around. This is driving me crazy not being able to remember this process. HELP!
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Sounds like motion capture to me.
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Isn't motion capture what they use to make some characters in video games move (like when basketball players play themselves)? Also how they make some movie characters come to life like the Hulk, King Kong, and Gollum from THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies? I don't know why, but that just doesn't sound like the name I heard.
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Motion Capture is the method of animating humanoid 3D Figures, MoCap is used for a lot of things, movies, games and sometimes TV Shows and lots more actually.
Final Fantasy The Spirits within used MoCap to animate the people in it.
Any time they want the characters created to move in the same ways that the actor moves, they use a motion capture camera to duplicate the movements in the computer. But for a TV show, they probably just mapped out the character movements in a computer and animated it from there. It's probably just regular CGI animation.
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I don't think they used MOCAP for these characters. The actions are very rigid, its more of a keyframe animation, regular CGI, as master angelus said.
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I'm not even sure if mocap or performance capture was in regular use when this show was created...I'm sure it was all keyframe animated.
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