| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2013 10:29 a.m. PST |
"Generally speaking, zombies are dumb. They're clumsy, single-minded corpses that are constantly in attack mode. But for World War Z, London-based VFX house Moving Picture Company had to make the zombie hoards a little more intelligent. For the movie's massive piles of Zs in Jerusalem, the VFX company—one of a handful that worked on World War Z—had to build zombie "agents" that could "act" on their own. The digital creatures, whose movements come from motion-capture performances of people running up nets and falling down ramps, were programmed with a kind of artificial intelligence. Using MPC‘s proprietary crowd-simulation program Alice, each "agent" was given a set of rules, an objective to complete. Then a simulation was run to make them crawl all over each other to achieve that objective…"
Full article and trailer here.
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| haywire | 10 Jul 2013 10:52 a.m. PST |
The 360 around the bus was nice, but it (the physics) all still looks wrong to me. Also now that they showed the stairway without the buildings you can see a bunch of Zekes that "clipped" through the building corner. |
| VonTed | 10 Jul 2013 11:08 a.m. PST |
Didn't Lord of the Rings do this with Orcs as well? |
| Balin Shortstuff | 10 Jul 2013 1:19 p.m. PST |
Just what we need, smarter zombies. I think LotR did do the same thing. And on the programs first test run, all of the agents ran away from the battle. |
 javelin98  | 10 Jul 2013 2:18 p.m. PST |
I thought they moved too quickly and fluidly. Not even predatory animals move the way they did. And Balin is correct! When the first test run was done of an LOTR battle scene, all the orc-sprites turned around and ran! |
| GoGators | 10 Jul 2013 3:51 p.m. PST |
Sounds like the test run had a sign error. |
Stronty Girl  | 11 Jul 2013 4:51 a.m. PST |
Aren't smarter zombies called… um… people? |
| ArchiducCharles | 11 Jul 2013 8:21 a.m. PST |
Hmmm right. So fast, agile and intelligent beings who don't eat their victims but merely give them a little bite and then move on. Remind me again what makes them 'Zombies'?! |
| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2013 10:23 a.m. PST |
"…Not even predatory animals move the way they did…" Cheetas? (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| javelin98 | 12 Jul 2013 3:45 p.m. PST |
Even cheetahs have bones! The zekes in WWZ moved like squids or jellyfish. |
| skyking20 | 18 Jul 2013 8:35 a.m. PST |
all that swisting and convulsing in WWZ would result in some broken bones, especially the joints! |
