What benefits do yo8u get with real-time over the traditional CG movie?
I think that from hereafter, real-time will become the new standard. There’s no emotion in a CG movie. We’re not the first to try this. Crash Bandicoot also uses real-time as well. Technically they’re the same, but where as Crash uses real-time just for some in-game animation, we use it to create whole movies. However, in order to take a movie-like apporoach to the living real-time like MGS does requires a large amount of pre-work with story boarding. What is involved in the production of real-time cut scenes? First we receive the scenario. After looking at that, Mr. Toyota, the motion designer, creates the storyboard and starts working on all the motion that is needed for that scene. We then take this and use a special in-house polygon animation tool called Polygo Namie to create all the in-game polygon models. Following the scenario we match all the motion to the speech, and then on top of this we add all the camera as well. How many 3D models were produced for Metal Gear in total? N
