Animating Character with a doll ? Who wants ?

[diedir]

promised in few monthes this doll can be "posed" and make your anim... for 700 / 800 $ (apparently)

 

here the link :

 

could be very fun or gadget like...

 

what do you think ?

[Pancakes]

Um, I think it's for animation enthusiasts. But it looks impractical especially if you have any sort of IK solvers, then the doll and the rig won't match up. The doll takes up two of your hands and a bunch of deskspace so I'm not sure if this is an improvement over keyboard and mouse. It's a fun toy for enthusiasts. But what do I know?

[knocks]

This tool would be great for pose to pose, not so good for straight animation, I’m sure the anime studios will jump on this. I won’t replace my wooden one anytime soon.

[Mumbles]

And uh, does it work in Milkshape? or is it just something for the rich trust fund *bleep*s?

[Guest Red Ocktober]

do the same thing in Truespace with keyframe animations for $7/800 less...

 

--Mike

[Pancakes]

But then you still have the problem of $7/800 overflow in your bank account! Back to the drawing board.

[Rick]

Would be cool if they could put those sensors inside craft pipe cleaners to get amazing flexibility. Somehow assign bones in the app to each pipe cleaner so people could make a skeleton (to whatever creature they want) with the pipe cleaner and then animate it by moving the pipe cleaners.

[Benton]

yeah that could be really useful

[Flexman]

I miss my Action Man.

 

This is a great tool for traditional stop motion animators. I dare say it's possible to build your own using resistive plastics or flexible strain gauges such as these http://www.tekscan.com/flexible-force-sensors

 

Just add talent.

[Guest Red Ocktober]

LOL @ 'cakes....

 

yeah, such are the kind of problems i'd luv to have

 

--Mike