Animated Simulations Come to Life
January 12th, 2009
Q: What are the benefits to animated simulations in place of video scenes?
A: Animated simulations are far more adaptable, user friendly, and engaging than simple video scenes. The benefits of 3D animation are immediately apparent in two major arenas: animation offers more cost effective production and maintenance while producing higher quality simulations.
Animated products have the advantage of flexible, editable discrete assets. In addition, standard 3D elements can be purchased for faster production time, custom developed for accuracy of unique attributes, or client-provided to maintain consistency with other client materials or preferences. Elements such as characters, objects or environmental qualities, can then be easily maintained. Ease of movement or substitution allows for a dynamic atmosphere while reuse of elements in other locations or simulations allows for ease and speed in production of parallel scenes or derivative projects.
Such modularity or simplicity of manipulation ensures near photo realistic characters, textures, and assets while maintaining a timelessness of look and feel that video scenes are quickly apt to loose. With no need to “re-shoot” scenes for quality, accuracy, alterations, or updating, production costs are significantly lowered. In comparison with video scenes, 3D animation also exhibits less risk and easier production scheduling – read lower costs, too!
Compared to video, 3D simulations provide greater immersion and sense of limitless possibilities coupled with strong genre and thematic appeal to today’s gaming-centric generation.
Simulation
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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; — distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. BrainyQuote
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