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FIFA 13 – Mo Cap

EA Sports have put out a video showing Vancouver Whitecaps defenders Jay Demerit and Alain Rochat chatting about the Motion Capture they’ve been doing for FIFA 13.

Including a celebration that many people will be pleased to see…

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*UPDATE*

Here’s another side of the session from the Whitecaps YouTube Channel. Dave is going to lose his mind when he see’s the coin toss. Thanks to MEQ for the link.

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  • Lucio

    @ Fifaway

    I do agree with you with it not looking authentic. But you have to understand EA, if they were to put every different shot into the game they would never be able to put all that information onto the disk. In Football “soccer” There are hundreds of different shot, headers, blocks, slide tackels, throw ins and so on.

    Sometimes its just impossible to get all the information right. They will generalize and hope they get the best result. Hopefully with the new generation coming and the new disk space they will have. They will be able to put more info into he game. One thing people dont understand is that to make everything authentic they need to have every players come in and do the MOCAP. Not every player is willing or able to give the time. So EA has to make do with what they have.

    BUt i do agree not everything looks right all the time. You just have to be happy with with the efforts EA puts into the game.

  • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

    You see, this is virtual and rendered in real time. No matter how good the motion capture is, it still depend on the graphic engine and other limitations. I’m not sure if any current gen engine allow such free, fluid limb movement like in real life. No matter how good the graphic is, there will be couple of odd animation here and there.

    FIFA animation still suffers from stiffness around player arm, hand, waist, thigh and especially elbow, but that’s down to the engine limitation i guess. Can’t really expect perfect life-like animation, unless it’s pre-rendered.

    I’m glad i’m not a person who put too much focus on graphic and animation. Sometime i find it funny (poor animation), but it just made me chuckle, that’s all. Maybe because i can tolerate extremely poor graphic and animation. Afterall, i still play couple of old games from 90′s on my PC once in a while.

  • McG

    Okay, so I read the comments before I watched the videos…

    First, how is it that the majority of people always find something to bitch about? Why not point out how freaking cool this opportunity would be for a player (any player) to be part of something that is so important to so many people?

    Second, for those of you who are bad mouthing the quality of the animations in FIFA, do any of you remember even FIFA 10 and back? The game has made huge strides I mean for shit sakes in FIFA 08 you couldn’t even make a shot with out A or X passing across the box or moving your guy right before you shot to one side or the other.

    Lastly, for the ungrateful morons that think it’s okay to bite the hand that feeds you. Talking shit to the people who provide this site and wonderful information to us is complete ignorance. Do you pay for this information? No. Do you spend all the time to write articles, research, and traveling to contribute to this site? No. So when your comments are questioned by one of the contributors of the site, shut your mouth, smile politely and realize your place. Without them there is you, randomly and blindly searching through out the internet for information on FIFA.

    Thanks for the video guys, and on a side note if I was mo-caping I’d be fucking around too fighting and all that, who wouldn’t? They may not be the best players in the world, but they are still human beings that enjoy life and like to have fun. Not everything serious because moron A thinks that side boot shot isn’t perfect. Get over it the game is still leaps and bounds better than PES or any Iphone game you will ever get your hands on.

  • King Geoffrey

    Would be nice to have Player ID with this technology going forward!!!

  • fifaway

    @ Lucio
    @ Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

    good posts. i do sometimes think it’s down to engine limitation, but what makes me scratch my head is that every year we see newly added animations, plus the fact that many of the already existing ones are superb and authentic. for these 2 reasons i tend to think it’s less of an engine limtation issue and more of lack of good taste/aesthetics understanding of football by the animators/artists at ea, or maybe the actors aren’t good enough. i think u need to be a good actor just as much as u need to be a footballer to replicate real life movements for a mo-cap recording.

    also, animation is probably the best department that fifa does well, it’s years ahead of pes let alone games from other genres, so for this reason i think some people can go crazy and call someone a troll if he/she tries to criticise fifa’s animation. we all want improvement and it can only happen thru criticism. fifa’s animations while impressive it still has issues here and there and cannot be called a true, authentic replication of real football. hopefully next-gen things get much better.

  • PESKing

    Fifa’s animations are amazing i wish PES had animations as good.

  • David

    I thought messi was doing these animations, whatever happened?.. Good enough job done by these vancouver guys though. At least theyre professional footballers.

  • David Humber

    Various footballers have been mo capped for Fifa…Rooney, Ronaldinho & Edu as well as actors and Canadian footballers.

  • David Humber

    Villa & Juninho as well.

  • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

    @fifaway
    I know what you meant. But maybe this is not the right place and right time. Maybe you can forward or share your thought on EA FIFA 13 forum?

  • Tom Mills

    @fifaway They were deleted. We got a similar response from some people on twitter.

    Not sure how i’m supposed to know that english isn’t your first language before deciding if i “dig in” to your comment or not.

  • Redman

    Mcg you are too cool!!!! Stop licking ass you dick

  • David

    @David Humber:

    For FIFA 13 you mean? Thanks for the info.

  • McG

    @Redman, people like you are what make the internet, “the internet”. Grow up, proofread, and only refer to me if you have something constructive to say. Also, learn to talk shit. I would have expected a lot more than that, become a little bit more creative. Your comment was like every Pro Ranked Match that I’ve ever played, all over the place and sorely lacking in creativity.

    So in terms that you should understand…

    Stop ass-licking my dick. :)

  • David Humber

    @ David

    Collected throughout the years, Mo Cap this year will be for extra/new animations but the majority are already in the game and dont need redone.

  • David

    @David Humber

    Cool, thanks.

  • Gui Cramer
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