Animation Tool Puts You in the Game 110
Matthew Sparkes writes "A new technique could take a simple body scan and allow a user to upload it and use it as an avatar or game character. Previously an animator would have to create a skeleton inside the model and describe movement capabilities manually. In tests, an inexperienced user could produce the animations in less than 15 minutes."
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/me makes the obligatory joke about how most Slashdot readers would probably not want a real body scan of them used as their avatar in games.
hmm (Score:4, Funny)
This sounds like a complete Serkis.
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Now my avatar can have a herniated disc! (Score:5, Funny)
My avatar will bitch and moan and lay down a lot and take pills and flake on people and blame it on his back.
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Reverse the technology, make more money. (Score:5, Funny)
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Puts You in the Game? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Character Hacks (Score:5, Funny)
Dude! (Score:4, Funny)
Surprised it was so long before a pr0n remark (Score:5, Funny)
(Anyone else surprised it was so long before a pr0n related comment?)
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