Re: *Spoilers* TH comments on LW-JP

[John Foust <jfoust@threedee.com>]

The Armadillo with the Mask <armadilo@daft.com> wrote:
>
>Betty may want to contest me on this(She's the only other CG-based person
>I've seen on this list, and BTW Betty, are you planning on being at
>SIGGRAPH this year?), but based on my own animation experience, upright is
>a lot easier to animate/manipulate, so I would guess upright. Doing a
>sprawling/semi-sprawl posture would require that just about every joint in
>the limbs be a 3D joint(i.e. ball-n-socket) in the IK skeleton of the model. 

I'm another CG person on the list.  See my web site for more info
about what I do.  What makes you think they used IK as opposed
to very hand-tuned keyframing?

Today's 3D tools are affordable and relatively easy to use.  I wish
they'd be in more common use among researchers.  If you
wish that JP and LW aren't realistic enough when it comes to motion,
you can make your own version of the movie.  

- John