Walking around the Expo floor at GDC is always interesting. What’s the hot new thing? What’s old that’s different? What are the new trends that companies are trying to push? First of all, there are too many motion capture companies. Everywhere you turned, there was a model or two dancing on the floor with their actions mimicked onscreen in realtime behind them. This was a really cool technology when I first saw it in 1996. While interviewing with a now-defunct game company, I was with them taking motion capture for a Steven Seagal title at his dojo in Santa Monica.…



