A few years ago when I was playing FIFA I was wondering how it is possible that not very famous footballer who moves in a characteristic way looks like in reality. It turned out it was because of Motion Capture.
What is Motion Capture?
Motion Capture (mocap) - is technique used in movies and computer games in which you capture 3D moves of actors and save them on the computer.
It turned out that they invited most footballers to EA studio and they recorded them with mocap.
EA sports is Canadian company from Vancouver. This company is famous worldwide and employs 2500 people. Company campus has got 37 thousand m2. It is most of all two buildings, one for employees who work only on FIFA. They make all animations in the game in hangar size of football pitch. There are 132 cameras, more than 10 monitors and special equipment. 25 employees use them at the same time. Hangar is enormous, there isn't bigger studio in the whole world. The idea is that footballers must feel like on real pitch. They must have space to gain momentum and shoot the ball. When they record , they put real grass in the studio.
In Canada they want their employees to be happy. Apart from tradicional canteen, they have two free Starbucks cafes, library , games room and cinema. They have a lot of pitches for different games and gym. Company pays for hairdresser, drycleaner and car wash.
What is more workers can come with their dogs. It means that more than 200 animals come to campus every day.
Questions:
Have you ever wondered how they make these realistic moves of footballers in FIFA?
Did you know that Mocap is such enormous project?
Do you like to organize small tournament in FIFA with friends at the weekend sometimes?
Sources:
https://businessinsider.com.pl/technologie/nowe-technologie/premiera-fifa-17-jak-powstawala-gra-w-ea-sports/bzlmeb3
http://www.gram.pl/artykul/2012/09/27/tydzien-z-fifa-13-jak-tworcy-gry-robia-motion-capture.shtml
http://www.gry-online.pl/slownik-gracza-pojecie.asp?ID=157
What is Motion Capture?
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It turned out that they invited most footballers to EA studio and they recorded them with mocap.
EA sports is Canadian company from Vancouver. This company is famous worldwide and employs 2500 people. Company campus has got 37 thousand m2. It is most of all two buildings, one for employees who work only on FIFA. They make all animations in the game in hangar size of football pitch. There are 132 cameras, more than 10 monitors and special equipment. 25 employees use them at the same time. Hangar is enormous, there isn't bigger studio in the whole world. The idea is that footballers must feel like on real pitch. They must have space to gain momentum and shoot the ball. When they record , they put real grass in the studio.
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In Canada they want their employees to be happy. Apart from tradicional canteen, they have two free Starbucks cafes, library , games room and cinema. They have a lot of pitches for different games and gym. Company pays for hairdresser, drycleaner and car wash.
What is more workers can come with their dogs. It means that more than 200 animals come to campus every day.
Questions:
Have you ever wondered how they make these realistic moves of footballers in FIFA?
Did you know that Mocap is such enormous project?
Do you like to organize small tournament in FIFA with friends at the weekend sometimes?
Sources:
https://businessinsider.com.pl/technologie/nowe-technologie/premiera-fifa-17-jak-powstawala-gra-w-ea-sports/bzlmeb3
http://www.gram.pl/artykul/2012/09/27/tydzien-z-fifa-13-jak-tworcy-gry-robia-motion-capture.shtml
http://www.gry-online.pl/slownik-gracza-pojecie.asp?ID=157
Comments
When it comes to playing Fifa with friends, it's something that I love. I'm quite sad that nowadays games companies are focusing on online playing and there is such a few games that allows to play multiplayer offline. Still fifa does it, despite focusing on FIFA ultimate team, so it's nice that this doesn't change. What is your favourite fifa? Also I do not want to sound racist but FIFA has some problem with black players and there is always somone to much "OP" like Doumbia, Benteke or Martial. What dou you think about it? Cheers.
Generally since me and my brother have discovered fifa we regularly meet to play whole season so we have to spend about 20 hours. We often try not to sleep and it is easy because this game is so entertaining.
Yeah, I love organising small tournaments at weekends just becase I consider it's a great way to spend free time with friends.
And yes i knew that motion capture is complicated and big project. And no i have never wondered how they make moves of football players so realistic.
I heard about mocap seasions but the amount of work has suprised me. But I guess it has to be really enjoyable.
I'm not a big fan of FIFA games (last time I played fifa was about 8 years ago (whoa I just realised how much time passed since my last match)).
I have never wondered about those realistic moves at FIFA, but I find out motion capture after Avatar movie.
In my town there is a pub which used to organize FIFA tournaments. Actually I liked to watch it but they stopped doing it I think.
YEs motion capture is a huge investment and present way of doing things right. Witcher 3 was a great example of using motion capture to record and recreate movements from real life into game cinematic and character movement. It has its drawbacks its a huge time sink to get it right and having it rushed can end up just like MassEfect Andromeda, where it turned out awful to say at best.
As for Fifa , not a huge fan mainly because of it yearly system which milks money off gamers with what could be done through update, im talking about releasing virtually same content under new game price-tag with no real progression to actual franchise. This aspect + EA shady practices when it comes to young football talent make Fifa as a game for me not acceptable.
Laser scanning is extremely useful in games (or apps), which replicate any kinds of environments that are present in the 'real world'. In my case the most interesting area is racing games, where laser scanning is at the moment revolutionising the industry. Since a few years back developers have used laser scanning to replicate real racetracks in games. At first you might think, that it does not make any sense, because it is just a bit of straight road and some curves at certain angles. That is not entirely true, as laser scanning lets you make 100% true models of environments including exact hillclimbs, exact tilts, but even the exact texture of the tarmac, bumps, holes, cracks and even minor ruggedness of the road. This, in combination of the power of todays computers and advanced physics used in games lets developers create realistic simulations, letting the user actually experience the real racetrack virtually. The same goes of course to making 3D models of existing buildings, roads, sceneries etc.
First time I’ve heard about it was when Andy Serkins was creating Gollum to The Lord of the Rings.
I’m not a big fan of FIFA. I’m more like RPG/moba games guy, but when it comes to play some tournament with friends, we’re playing Fightnight or EA UFC.
https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/2598358416976341/
EA, cancer developer and stockist.
But true is that this is amazing how far technology went ahead, allowing to create such a "realistic" games and movies.
If anyone interested in how much does it takes to create a single frame in game(gta 5):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2pDsLG_x6s
FIFA is the most popular football game. I never wondered how this game was designed. Yes, I happen to meet my friends and play a little tournament
>Do you like to organize small tournament in FIFA with friends at the weekend sometimes?
I'm not a big fan of sports games, as well as my friends, so we play some other games.
Actually I've never wondered about how they make the realistic moves of footballers in FIFA, because I've just never played FIFA. Anyway it's good to know it, because I would never say motion capture is used to do it. Recently I've been rather interested in stop motion so I've haven't read much about Mocap.
I honestly expected that Mocap is such a big project. FIFA is refined in the smallest detail. Thousands of people are working on making this game perfect.
I like meeting with my friends and play Fifa. It could be entertainment for all weekend. During tournaments the game is even more interesting. It is really hard to stop playing FIFA on the console.
But let me tell you about EA, those greedy punks don't deserve gamers respect. Ruined Battlefront for the last time. Not going to buy a game from them anymore. Not FIFA sadly either.
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