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Postal 2 Interview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2002-11-26 00:01:00.0


The ActionVault has slapped up an interview with Running With Scissors' Geoff Neale and Josh Leichliter regarding the art in their upcoming Unreal engine powered - first person shooter, Postal 2. Here's a blurb:

Action Vault: How much mocap did you do, and for what types of actions? As for the rest of the animations, how do you go about creating them?
Geoff: About two-thirds of our animations are mocap, all of which where hand-tweaked in the traditional manner, with the remaining third of the animations being created ground-up in the keyframed way of things. Some of the more complicated movements I storyboard out and I often have myself or someone else act out the part for reference. Actually, just sitting in a public place and watching people be themselves is a great tool, I sometimes just go sit on a bench at the mall and watch all the oddballs do whatever it is they do and use it for inspiration. Other times, I just sit at my desk madly waving my arms around, trying to figure out how to do something. Strangely, no one here seems to notice.


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