February 15, 2012, 06:22:30 pm
I was here once before but got distracted cause there wasn't a single example of in-context animated characters...I see lots of 2d which look good but do you know where to find examples of their animated characters?
They've basically filmed people from 360 degrees, and as the camera in the 3D application moves around, the corresponding frame from the video texture is displayed, so it looks like the characters are 3-dimensional.
Obviously this method suffers from the usual limitations that billboard-style characters have, ie, they're paper thin when viewed from above, and shadows don't look convincing as you move the camera round them.