Do You Love Me? [video]

If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyframes which results in the wrong velocities in the end.

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by faeyanpiraat » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

sxp wrote: post #4

If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…

I had the same feeling, and I assume they evoked this feeling intentionally trough the lighting, camera movement, etc...

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Post by maddyboo » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

This gave me the warm fuzzies and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

If I already feel a twinge of empathy for some soulless robots, where are we going to be a few years down the road when this phenomenon is more actively exploited?

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Post by 11thEarlOfMar » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:16 PM UTC

First reaction: It's official. I am very afraid.

Second reaction: When's the OK Go video released?

Third reaction: They paid Boston Dynamics engineers to do this?

Re: Do You Love Me? [video]

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Post by roughly » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:19 PM UTC

sxp wrote: post #4

If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…

Agree that if anyone except BD put out this video I’d bin it as fake immediately. I still have a hard time saying I believe it - it feels like such a jump from where my mental model of their robots was and CGI is so good at this point that it feels easier for this to be a fake than real.

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Post by whywhywhywhy » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

It's so freaky looking at this my brain feels like it's CG, spot in particular. Even though being familiar with Boston Dynamics I know its not.

Not sure if its just so unreal, or maybe there's something unnatural in the movement or if some scenes were sped up.

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Post by CommieBobDole » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

sxp wrote: post #4

If I didn't know who Boston Dynamics was, I would have said that this is just CGI. The animations look so fake. I think the issue is that they're aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems. Cheap mocap animation has the same problem because the frame rate of the capture system is too low. They interpolate between captured keyfra…

I would go further than that and say that it's obviously CGI, though I don't know if that actually means it is CGI - it could be, as you mentioned, some sort of post-processing. Or maybe it's greenscreened and composited together?

More than the smoothness, there just seems to be something off about the weight and momentum that you tend to see in high-end, big-budget-movie CGI, but it's hard to put a definite finger on it.