Programming and animation

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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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:

Extracting Actor geometry

Since actor has quite a lot work with MoCap, actor is important part of working process. And if you wish to experiment, you may to collect actor geometry bodies. I will talk about building complete alternative actor later, now I will share how to extract the geometry body of the actor in a separate file and then how to output it in a separate MoBu model.

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MoCap. Character properties

When transferring the animation to the actor from the character should be taken into account the following important properties:

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Biped CSM import/export

Hi everyone,

I want to share import/export plugin for MotionBuilder to work with 3dsMax CSM file. Now You will be able to save optical marker data directly to the 3dsMax biped!

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MoCap for entertainment

I had an idea to experiment with MoCap equipment and make simple game for entertainment. Indeed, opportunities may be obtained from the same device as a Nintendo Wii console. I have built a game-like range of those that were at the Dendy console, coming complete with a pistol. The challenge to shoot a mouse in the monitor on a red square (the enemies) and do not shoot on the green (the hostages). For this game it was enough a three cameras and two rigid bodies(the gun and monitor).

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Merge takes with optical mocap data

I would like to share one of the opportunities of the “Advance cleaning tool”  - combining multiple Takes into one.

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How to… Extract actor pivots

The script should be run with the selected geometry of the actor (who does not know to do that, press Spacebar + Right mouse button on the actor Hips geometry model). The output will be a set of cubes with the name and position of the relevant part of the actor.

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