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Artificially Intelligent Animation
Tech TV has posted some details about the battle scene animation in Lord Of The Rings, including sniplets from their discussion with Nick Ericson (Artificially Intelligent Animation). Essentially, the orcs are animated in two layers: a low level motion control layer, which coordinates limbs. I'm pretty sure this is animated by an artist, though the process of learning movement by feedback is mentioned briefly. The second layer is a symbolic reasoning layer: a deliberative planning component, which takes into account all the visible entities and determines the best course of action. Thank got for us they decided that a big fight was the best course of action, since the film wouldn't quite have worked if they'd all started river-dancing :P |
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