That didn’t exactly look like animation. Looks like they trained an AI to control a humanoid figure in a virtual environment. It learned completely new and inhuman means of locomotion. Not very impressive from the technical angle, but the pitch about using it as a model for Zombie movement was clever.
You can use that for CG animation, of course. But those bi- and quadrupedal robots are also trained that way.
I feel the filmmakers manufactured some drama there. Knowing the real context of the quote makes it much more sensible.
That didn’t exactly look like animation. Looks like they trained an AI to control a humanoid figure in a virtual environment. It learned completely new and inhuman means of locomotion. Not very impressive from the technical angle, but the pitch about using it as a model for Zombie movement was clever.
You can use that for CG animation, of course. But those bi- and quadrupedal robots are also trained that way.
I feel the filmmakers manufactured some drama there. Knowing the real context of the quote makes it much more sensible.