{"id":820,"date":"2011-06-11T00:27:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T06:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=820"},"modified":"2011-06-11T00:27:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T06:27:01","slug":"cartoon-brew-stands-up-for-mocap-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/06\/cartoon-brew-stands-up-for-mocap-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Brew Stands Up For MoCap&#8230; Sorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an <a title=\"Don't worry, it'll only take 5 minutes away from your busy schedule.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/ideas-commentary\/steven-paul-leiva-says-motion-capture-not-animation.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article<\/a> from Cartoon Brew, which actually took a relatively pro-MoCap stance. It was in response to Space Jam&#8217;s Animation Producer, Steven Paul Leiva, who claimed Motion Capture isn&#8217;t animation. While the article shows a general dislike for the aesthetics of the technique, it still makes a solid argument that it should be considered animation&#8230; particularly when it comes Oscar time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/polar-mocap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-821  aligncenter\" title=\"Agreeing with the article doesn't mean you have to like all of Zemeckis' films.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/polar-mocap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article makes a lot of good points, and I think is worth a read. Most animator&#8217;s don&#8217;t like MoCap (they feel it&#8217;s a huge shortcut that demeans the industry), so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s odd to see an animation site take it&#8217;s side. Still, it&#8217;s tough to argue with the article&#8217;s reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an interesting article from Cartoon Brew, which actually took a relatively pro-MoCap stance. It was in response to Space Jam&#8217;s Animation Producer, Steven Paul Leiva, who claimed Motion Capture isn&#8217;t animation. While the article shows a general dislike for the aesthetics of the technique, it still makes a solid argument that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}