Motion Capture Blog

Last week I got some feedback from my formative submission on the facial animation. Here were the notes Dr Kennedy made: Then...

My second-to-last week staring intently at Miri's funky limbs and neon hair. The focus for the week was on adding in the foot roll that I...

Now that we are nearing the end of the project, this week was all about cleaning up the body data. I started where I left off last week -...

This week we took a look at organising our maya scene file so everything was ready for additional animation. My frame range for the...

Now for Performance Capture we get to move on to the body. The Meta Human rigs are quite complicated and are custom rigs. For this...

What a week. Or should I say what felt like a month. In its entirety, the cleanup process has taken me seven full days to complete. Part...

This was the final week before semester break, in which I was feeling slightly behind already. Our lecture was an overview and tutorial...

In the Week 6 Lecture, Dr Kennedy went over the Uncanny Valley. This was a concept I felt quite familiar with after a year of MoCap...

Our lecture content this week was about finishing the retargeting process for the brows and eyes, touching briefly on the clean up...

This week we learnt how to parameterize the data to take it from Analyzer into Maya. Then it was time to take the data and put it into...

In our lecture this week we were taught about FACS aka the Face Action Coding System. FACS is a taxonomy that is used to break down the...

This week we went over how to setup and start training our sequence in Analyzer. I started by importing my face cam sequence and then...

OVERVIEW To begin this project, we started by learning about the history and systems associated with Performance Capture. From my...