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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by ykl on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:56AM (#21575166)
That's also a case where the tech came a while after the story. Our early snow tests on Frozen looked pretty terrible until the MPM simulator [1] came online later.

[1] https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/innovations/matte...

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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by electricslpnsld on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:21PM (#21576255)
Did the MPM simulator get used in practice for Frozen? I talked to a few sim TDs (or whatever the equivalent Disney title is) and they said it was too slow at the start for practical use!
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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by earthboundkid on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:23PM (#21575512)
Hair in computer animation is still so bad, I'm surprised you don't see the animators lobbying hard for all stories to be set in Wakanda.
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