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AWN has posted an article revealing the results of an animation survey filled out by over 300 readers. It’s not surprising that most of the surveyed are guys who have a boner for hand drawn animation. It seems that they are particularly disturbed about the direction the winds of change are blowing in regards regards to mocap. Mark Simon sums up the issue thusly.

Sony Imageworks and Beowulf director Robert Zemeckis spent over $150 million producing a motion-capture CG animation movie. Want to know what scored the lowest in the survey of favorite animation styles? Motion-capture CG animation. Barely 2% of the survey-takers prefer this style of animation. It would seem that this is not a good investment.

I do have to agree that the Citizen Kane of mo-cap movies has yet to be made. And It looks like the movie biz has a long way to go in convincing the animators of the world that scaling the cliffs of the uncanny valley is worthy a pursuit.

LINK to full survey results (via VFXPlanet)

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