Most people don’t realize that the motions we capture at Mixamo, when used with high quality characters and lighted and rendered well, can produce a very nice, film quality motion capture animation. We wanted to create a cinematic animation like this, so I called on the lighting, rendering, and artistic direction skills of Solomon W. Jagwe to make our animations shine.
Interview with Solomon W Jagwe about creating the cinematic
Solomon did a fantastic job rendering, compositing, and putting all the assets together that I gave him in a visually appealing way.
(To see Solomon’s post for the project, go here: http://www.sowl.com/2012/12/toxic-planet-a-3d-cinematic-for-mixamo-inc/)