Motion Capture Program
– Nic Ebinger A ton of the shots were created with mocap or at least used some mocap as a base animation to work off of. There are about 100+ shots in the short so it’s hard to tell you exactly which shots.
I put a few examples in the behind the scenes video. As a guide 80% of the character animation in any of the hotel shots was mocap.
100% of the alley shots were mocap. None of the casino montage shots were mocap because of how short each clip is. Infected animations outside the hotel were not mocap. Is Zachariah Scott Survival of the fittest is a quick little short which was a finalist in valves saxxy awards this year.
Face Motion Capture Program
It was a quick project designed to get a feel for the software, and I am extremely pleased with he results ipisoft allowed me to achieve. All body animation was created using the ipisoft program, with minimal hand keyed cleanup for the character fingers and faces. The thing that impresses me most about ipisoft though, is the massive boon to production speed it provides. I was able to build the entire short in a mere two days, with only 6-8 hours spent dealing with animation capture and processing.
Ae Motion Capture Programs
This software is blisteringly fast and efficient when placed in the right hands. I’m seeing serious improvements in my animation pipeline, with massive gains in speed and fidelity thanks to this wonderful software. Is Michael Davydov Almost every animation was made with the help of two Microsoft Kinects and an iPi Soft DMC. Except for running sequences and a few other animations, like the first shot with Guard standing in front of a door, animation of one Guard in ambush, close-ups.
Every animation was then refined with the build-in filters of iPi DMC, then brought into 3ds max CAT rig, and adjusted and refined further there. We also used Endorphin to create ragdoll dynamics in the starship scene.
Kinects were upgraded with vibro-motors. One was made from a USB fan, and another was made from an old shaver.
Vibrations helped to isolate pattern projections for each kinect, and make overall quality of recordings about 2 times better. Can’t wait to get my hand on Kinect 2.0, I hope iPi guys are ready to add support for them as soon as possible, after the release!.