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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Fixing Feet Sliding

I want to tell about quite popular issue of the MoCap animation – feet sliding effect, and how to fix it in MotionBuilder by several ways.

First of all, through the algorithm of feet stabilization and feet contact on the floor, and of course through self-editing by hand.

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Labelator – rename your skeleton’s markers

Labelator – is a special helper object, which stores the names of objects around them by their spatial arrangement. 

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Short films

In this topic I want to share interesting and noteworthy shorts.

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3dsMax repeating RIG

I want to share the script for recording/replaing the object’s interconnections (RIG io). The point is to remember the relationship between objects and then if necessary to repeat them at the sites with the same name.

Video
This video recorded with the sound, to tell the truth it’s not very good quality, but I believe that the presence of sound considerably enlivens the movie in any case…

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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.