Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Larry Curly and Mo-Cap

Another Epic Games update:

More motion capture work means more excitement! We got on the evening news, we're going to get to go to a motion-capture-team party at the sprawling estate house of one of our contacts at the company, and best of all, I have more NDA-sanitized pictures!



There I am in my mo-cap suit, ready to act like a tough guy wearing about twice my personal body-weight in armor.



Here's a mysterious squiggle of masking tape on the ground of the mo-cap studio. What could it be? An alien chalk outline? The boundaries of an energy conduit we're about to be sucked into? A Georgia O'Keeffe print?



And this is from down the hall in Epic Games' in-house mini-gym (it's how all those game developers stay so buff). You can set the Stair Machine to simulate the steps of famous landmarks. Not just the number, but also the angle of inclination. It's a little crazy, but not as crazy as the options I'd have programmed in:

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