Silent Hill3 OMG!
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marconelly!
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Then I think you're not going to like Douglas' "no pants" code
)))SH games always had goofs like that. So that when you finish the game you can look at it as if it was acted by actors in a movie, etc...
marconelly!
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Yeah, lip syncing in SH3 seems to be a bit overanimated, I thought that when watching the Douglas talk. It's an extreme nitpicking, though considering they've done the scenes in RT, and considering I honestly don't know a single piece of CGI cinematography with humans where lip syncing was perfectly natural, Even FF:TSW succumbed there many of times.
marconelly!
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Hmmm. I don't think either of those games did a very good job at lip syncing and facial animation. SH3 is certainly better than any of them IMO (well, maybe not better than SH2 and FFX CG but it's pretty close), although still not as good as I'd like.
I've just watched some pre-rendered CGs from SH2 to refresh my memory, and yeah, they all suffer from that slightly overanimated feel. RT scenes in SH2 have a lot more simplistic facial expressions, on top of that.
IMO, it's mostly games and movies with cartoon character that look more believable, simply because you don't expect that level of realism from the imaginary characters. Animation of realistic looking humans has to be on the whole new level of sophistication compared to that, for them to look even remotely believable.
I've just watched some pre-rendered CGs from SH2 to refresh my memory, and yeah, they all suffer from that slightly overanimated feel. RT scenes in SH2 have a lot more simplistic facial expressions, on top of that.
IMO, it's mostly games and movies with cartoon character that look more believable, simply because you don't expect that level of realism from the imaginary characters. Animation of realistic looking humans has to be on the whole new level of sophistication compared to that, for them to look even remotely believable.
Well, I liked the 'underanimated feel' of FF X/SH2 RT. The CGs were a little overdone (Maria moreso than James). And again, MGS2's were just great.
I still can't believe the FF X localizing team pushed that game out the door with like 30 % English / 70% Japanese lip synching... its an embarassment to the otherwise astronomical production values.
I still can't believe the FF X localizing team pushed that game out the door with like 30 % English / 70% Japanese lip synching... its an embarassment to the otherwise astronomical production values.
marconelly!
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MGS2 was pretty good (especially considering it used some kind of realtime lip sync generator), except for the moments when it all screwed up and characters' mouth for a moment moved completely wrong (or not at all) But again, the facial expressions were rather simplistic. It fit well with the game's stylized look, though.
UltraMario
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I can't play this movies on my computer can someone tell me what kind of codec I need or give me a link
marconelly!
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Maskrider, I have to tell you I too couldn't play those movies with WMP. I had to use Power DVD instead. WMP 9.0 crashed, and WMP 6.4 reported that it can't find appropriate codec.
ChryZ said:
I tried my QuickTime 6 import/export to MPEG-4, but I can't get it to carry the audio track.
I use those tools because they are the ones that I had been using for a long time.
edit: and BTW, the MPEG-4 encoder in QuickTime 6 is not good, the dynamics of the picture is runied from its output comparing to MPEG-2 counterpart.
maskrider said:
If you like to try something new:
IMHO the best build of the XviD codec:
http://nic.dnsalias.com/xvid.html
Encoding with VirtualDub [GPL]:
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Open source video, select audio/video-compression, save, encoding ... done!