{"id":183,"date":"2013-02-06T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/blooper-reel-from-la-noire-reveals-its-excellent-motion-capture-technology\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:05:00","slug":"blooper-reel-from-la-noire-reveals-its-excellent-motion-capture-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/blooper-reel-from-la-noire-reveals-its-excellent-motion-capture-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooper reel from LA Noire reveals its excellent motion capture technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[That&#8217;s right, folks. We&#8217;re living in a future with animated blooper reels. -egg]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/ZKWktUuAQdI\/blooper-reel-from-la-noire-rev.html\">Blooper reel from LA Noire reveals its excellent motion capture technology<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>(Audio NSFW)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattrichardson.com\/\">Matt Richardson<\/a> says: &#8220;These are actual outtakes from the voice actors of LA Noire, rendered out. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These hilarious screw-ups were generated as a natural side effect of the MotionScan animation process used to create the game.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other motion-capture systems that use shiny, reflective dots to track key points as an actor moves, MotionScan generates 3D models, texture maps, and meshes directly from a stereo camera recording of an unadorned actor&#8217;s performance. The result is an instant virtual copy of that performance that captures mis-timed laughs, a tongue sticking out, and errant sneezes, with only minimal touch-up needed from an animator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/02\/l-a-noire-blooper-reel-chips-away-at-the-uncanny-valley\/\">Ars Technica: L.A. Noire blooper reel chips away at the uncanny valley<\/a> <em>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/communities\/109358237008912109516\">Boing Boing G+ Community<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=dad7e9768a7be8307c5b75e269c50713&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=dad7e9768a7be8307c5b75e269c50713&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/ZKWktUuAQdI\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[That&#8217;s right, folks. We&#8217;re living in a future with animated blooper reels. -egg] Blooper reel from LA Noire reveals its excellent motion capture technology: (Audio NSFW) Matt Richardson says: &#8220;These are actual outtakes from the voice actors of LA Noire, rendered out. These hilarious screw-ups were generated as a natural side effect of the MotionScan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-2X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}