Motion Capture Blog

This week I did some last tweaks before preparing for my final render. I changed the colour of my bifrost simulation. I found that the...

This week I was quite productive in terms of my motion capture project. CAMERAS: Guided again by my storyboard, I worked on the camera...

I had a lot of fun with some experimenting this week. The outcome of my testing was really satisfying. First I looked at different shader...

This week we didn't have class so I used the time to reset my scene after I lost the first one. I found an image on Pinterest of a...

Motion Capture has been on the backburner over the break while I've struggled through my animation homework, but I have done good...

After our recording session last week, I took the captured data and used the Cortex software to clean it up. This process was tedious,...

Our motion capture recording session took place after our class on Thursday. I booked the Green Screen Room for our group rehearsal....

Now that I've figured out how to achieve the look I wanted with Bifrost, I wanted to tweak the simulation to add some jelly egg-like...

Update on my project: I seem to have settled on this song from TuneTank for my dance. The song is too long so I will be clipping it from...

For my Motion Capture project, I have created a storyboard to show the sequence of actions in the dance. The red arrows represent the...

This week for Motion Capture we have been tasked with coming up with design concepts in the form of at least 3 mood boards. I have...

This week we jumped back into Motion Capture with a new assessment. The task is to visualise body movement (during some form of...

Rounding off the project, this week's focus was on editing the pre vis sequence together and adding sound effects to make it really come...

This week was probably the best in terms of Mocap work this semester as we got to create the shot files for the pre vis! It was finally...

In our lecture and lab, we were introduced to Motion Editing in Motion Builder. Motion Editing involved adjusting the movement of the...

This week I started to apply the solved data to each Autodesk Character. First I needed to figure out which movements each of the...

This week I began to make my Autodesk Characters for my scene. I wanted to make multiple characters for the crowd scenes and a main...

Both this week and last, I got to use the Cortex Software to clean up our Motion Capture Recording Data. It was actually quite a fun...

This week in our Motion Capture Lab Class we looked at how we can adjust the Previs Scene we've been given to look a bit better by...

In our lab last week, we learnt how to make control rigs using Human IK in Maya. We took our characters from Autodesk Character generator...