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The Increasing Role of Character Animation in Video Games
Animation Mentor graduates share their insights about working in gaming industry
By Heidi Landgraf of Animation Mentor.
For more information about Animation Mentor visit www.animationmentor.com.
Video Games have certainly evolved since the arrival of one of the earliest video games, Pong by Atari, more than 30 years ago. Back in the day, people were content to play this two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis. Gamers today, however, are demanding an increasingly more immersive gaming experience, one that the industry is constantly seeking to meet.
"Almost every video game today uses character animation. It's become a standard element in modern entertainment software," says Mark Stuart, who is a video games designer for Bionic Games and is currently working on Spyborgs.
We asked a group Animation Mentor graduates who were trained as character animators, and who now work in the gaming industry, to share their insights about how the role of the character animator has changed in the past few years.
Today, gamers find themselves in fully rendered CG worlds, competing in increasingly complex missions with more believable characters. This is where character animation specifically comes in to play: By creating greater empathy for the character, gamers become more involved in the game. "The uniqueness of gaming compared with other media is that we cannot just relate to the hero, but we actually become the hero," says Olivier Ladeuix, Animation Mentor graduate and former animator at Rare/Microsoft Game Studio.
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As technology ‘budgets' (technological parameters, not financial budgets) have increased and technology has become more sophisticated, game developers are using more complicated characters that allow the gamer to more fully connect with the gaming experience.
"Programmers are constantly looking for ways to optimize artwork so that they can fit more into the budget that's allowed. On a yearly basis you are seeing new engines, new ways of exploring animations and exporting more artwork onto a disk more efficiently," says Animation Mentor graduate Bill Buckley, who is an animator at Neversoft where many of the latest Guitar Hero installments were developed. "The result is that you can now have more characters on the screen at once, increased detail in scenery, further travel beyond the world origin, and more sophistication in the character itself."
"There is a common phrase used in developer jargon and it's ‘they wanna feel,'" Buckley says. "They want to feel what the character is thinking, what his emotions are and know what the motivations are behind the actions. The technology makes it possible for greater subtleties within the character's design, and gives animators more room for conveying thought and emotion through the character."
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