#Legal Animation
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I hope about 8,000 of those lawyers work in Oklahoma, maybe they would be
willing to try computer animation.
From a lawyer's or expert's viewpoint, do you think there would be an
interest in animating 3ds models on top of an image of the real accident
scene. I have thought about capturing frames from the camcorder and using
that for an animated background, but it would get very complicated to move
the computer camera exactly the same as the camcorder. What do you think,
is there situtations where this would work?
Regards……..Rick
This was done in San Diego recently to good effect. A mountainous
background was used as a realistic backdrop for a collision animation.
Worked very well.
But since we don't have the luxury of a motion control camera, I wouln'd
try to duplicate the camera motion in 3DS — it would be impossible to
authenticate, i.e. you couldn't establish in court that you had duplicated
it exactly. If it wasn't important — if the opposing lawyer didn't care
enough about it to attack it, then it probably wouldn't be worth the
trouble doing it! Kind of odd thinking, perhaps, but you have to keep in
mind that we aren't duplicating reality, we're illustrating it. That's a
big difference.
andy
Rick-
Are you in Tulsa? We are in Edmond (OKC) and really don't do legal stuff,
mainly broadcasts advertising animation, but I know of a couple of people
in OKC that seem to be doing OK in the legal presentation business. If you
would like, I can give you their names if they would be of any help to you
and you business.
-Mark