Programming and animation

Retarget prop MoCap animation (+ Video tutor)

Actor is rarely recorded in splendid isolation, usually in the hand he holds an object, which is called the prop. This object has its own set of markers, often three is enough, and these markers are moving close to the actor. But the difficulty begins when the actor retarget into a character who has a totally different scale and proportion. And here, if for parts of the body retarget you can do automaticly, then, for all the additional facilities will have to do everything “by hands”. Although if you look at action space property in the character settings, there appears counted on the scale of the character to an actor.

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Girl MoCap test animations

I have uploaded two small mocap animation, dance and fashion shows.

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Prop in a hand, video tutorial

A small video tutorial on how to take prop in a character’s hand in the MotionBuilder.

Spring box tutorial

I have prepared a small video tutorial on the use of plug-in of the spring simulation.

Plugin is here (with the source code):

http://neill3d.com/spring-box-constraint

MoCap Animation: kick test

In the continuation of a series of mocap animations.

This animation is presented as a test and does not purport to implement a real impact.

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MoCap animation: basketball play

Earlier I have uploaded video of the ball processing with the player, but as they say, better once it open yourself than a hundred times to see.

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Capturing Facial Animation in Tracking Tools

This post is intended for all users of the Tracking Tools. If you desire to capture a facial animation and you captured it, then you may be surprised a large scale markers, permanent jittering and other adverse effects, all of which reduce the quality of capturing in the literal sense to zero.

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Two ways to edit an animation for the Story mode

I present to your attention two small video lesson with possible approaches to editing an animation clip in the Story mode. Often this need arises when going from final character’s story and need to make certain changes in either animation.

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Ball reconstruction feature

I have finished ball recognition algorithm, so now along with classical rigit body props, our studio owns a unique in-house tool kit, which provides the ability to recognise a ball among the point data and to track its movement.

Demostration video you can watch on YouTube:

Render atlas

This utility will allow you to perform the render of multiple panes in one frame.

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