This trailer right here expresses exactly why the jump from current gen to next gen is large enough

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greenmedic88 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

curl-6 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

People complain too much. Look at this gorgeous in game footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJlptY6G4SQ

Honestly, I'm not impressed. The characters still look off, more like mannequins than human beings.

I am sure they do somewhere in your mind. I guess mo-capping means absolutely nothing right? It might not be there yet completely but its much more fluid than last gen.

I'm going to say right here that the fluidity of character movement, in game or pre-rendered, has little to do with the processing power of whatever hardware the visuals are being run on.

That motion, fluid, stiff, choppy, whatever, is entirely dependent upon the artists doing the animation in the case of key frame animation, and again in the case of motion capture, dependent upon the animation data clean up done by the animators in addition to the motion capture system used to create the raw data as not all mocap systems are alike or equal. 

Yes, I heard about that on Rev3's Uncanny Valley episode. I know about the animator cleanup. I am just saying animations are less stiff and more fluid from gen to gen. When the technology is more powerful more polygons are pushed and more subtlties can be shown.