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Those horses you’ve probably already spotted in the brand new Call of Duty: Black Ops II trailer will sport realistic animation thanks to the development team actually motion capturing a horse.
According to a press demo seen by Activision blogger Dan Amrich, the game’s new motion capture technology is hugely impressive.
“Animation lead Adam Rosas showed some extremely impressive performance-capture demos – very emotional stuff, as a woman speaks to her soldier husband via webcam,” explained Amrich. “No idea if that was just a test or if a scene like that will be used in the game, but there was a lot of nuance in the face and extremely expressive eyes; it was a very believable scene. Adam said they intentionally aimed for some of the toughest emotional challenges they could think of when testing out the animation rig, and they were very pleased with the results.
“Adam then showed some raw footage of, yes, a real-life horse with mocap sensors all over it, and showed us some of the resulting data to go with it. They performance-captured… a horse.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be released May 13. You’ll find more Black Ops II info here.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360
- Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter
