Video: Behind The Scenes Of Deadly Creatures
Here's a little known fact: nearly all of the animation in Deadly Creatures is really motion-captured. I say nearly because the humans couldn't make it to the mocap session, but the bugs were on time. Really! They fixed those little ping-pong ball things onto the spider and scorpion "actors" to perform the game's eerie animations. I know it sounds far fetched, but check out the video above if you still don't believe me. Those crazy people over at Rainbow Studios are so committed to the epic bug vs. bug action featured in their upcoming Wii adventure that they even documented the process for all to see. Watching this video certainly makes me appreciate the amount of detail animators put into this game between doses of anti-venom. Even though it's only a day or two before I'm able to get my hands on Deadly Creatures, this video makes the wait sting just a little bit more.
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 10 February 2009
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Hrm... Hate to be a nay-sayer, but I'm pretty sure that while the movement in the game may be motion-captured, the bugs in that video are entirely fabricated. While the motion is realistic, the behavior is not.
Still an awesome video though. Let's see some scorpion vs. scorpion next!
Yep, of course it's fake, like the bloopers at the end of Toy Story 2. But pretty funny!! :-D
It's not meant to look real. Wow some people take things too seriously.
By the way, I have this game, and it is AWESOME.
Wow, the video is awesome. Actually, watching that tarantula throw a swipe in videos I've seen of the game I'm pretty sure that while some motion capturing did take place, a lot of it is still old-school wireframe animation.
By the by - you guys think it would be selfish if I gave this game to my sister as a present, even though she hates spiders more than I do and would never play it? It's just that I don't have a Wii... ^^