Jim Gentile - Midway

Jim Gentile is a Creative Director of motion capture and animation at "House of Moves" in L.A. He has worked in the industry since 1987 and for 19 years worked for Midway.  He has also contributed to Ubisoft and Eidos with his great knowledge of motion capture.

He stressed that motion capture is a production tool and will not replace manual animation as Eric Baldwin had shown.  The clean-up of motion capture data is always needed with head stabilising and body interaction.  On average mo-cap data of a minute or so will take a single professional 15 minutes to clean-up. This in comparison to strenuous animating, of a full minute of footage, shows that with time constraints motion capture is an excellent tool. Jim Showed some great examples of his own work and definitely knew his stuff, hopefully I will experiment with motion capture at some point in the near future.