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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by Tajnymag on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:17AM (#29508615)
Facial animations seemed fine for me. What got me off was surprisingly the body animations. When Keanu and Carrie-Anne were walking and doing hand gestures, it felt really strange. Too smooth.
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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by mrweasel on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:31AM (#29508679)
A little later in the video where another character is walking, the butt motion is really weird. It's like someone decided that "her butt will wiggle, regardless of realism".
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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by dsign on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:45AM (#29508767)
Yes, hers is in fact the only one wiggling.
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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by drcongo on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:03AM (#29508912)
That bit jumped out at me too.
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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by dkdbejwi383 on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:44AM (#29508759)
It's the small imperfections that give things away. Before, it was textures that were too perfectly smooth. These days we can make things look a bit more realistically imperfect.

Now, it's animations that are too perfect, as you've pointed out. Even a perfectly trained athlete or ballet dancer still moves in slightly irregular and imperfect ways.

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Re:The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Techdemo [video] by ddnb on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:11AM (#29509415)
People gliding over the ground is a huge giveaway as well, when you walk past someone else your feet don't slide to the right while you are still walking straight ahead, your movement changes.
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