Advance Diploma - Motion Capture – Virtual bodies
The Organic Motion Capture System has just been installed into our new premises and we are excited to know what we can and cannot do with it!?
As part of the subject and before we all can decide what we are going to do for our final assessment we must TEST this system and push it to ours and it’s limit!
This is individual work, but you must choose a partner that can help you capture and record your assessment
So here’s what you guys have to do...
Assessment 2 - Major Assessment 1 - Character Trailer
Your task is to express your characters personality by finding and mimicking a suitable 1-minute film in action.
You are then to report if the system can accommodate your actions explaining the success and failures.
You must also report on why do think it didn’t work and how did you make the actions work by FILMing your findings and also in WRITING.
>>> Task Checklist Process
PREP
- Your Character
- Design
- Personality
- Modeled
- Environment Model
- Textured all models
- Rigged
- Can import into Motion Builder
- Your 1 minute chosen clip
- From either a film or a game action
- Must have at least 1 character/actor that performs actions throughout the 1 minute clip
- The actions reflect your characters personality.
- The clip has actions from all 3 categories
- Open actions
- Closed actions
- Actions with pro
- Got it Confirmed by Veronica!?
MoCap
- Organic Motion Capturing
- Create a motion list from your chosen 1-minute clip in the motion capture system
- Mimic your chosen 1-minute clip in the motion capture system
- Import it onto your character
- List which motion was captured most successful and which wasn't
- List why don't they work properly and how you can you make the system capture it properly?
- Re-MoCap imperfect motions by testing a better work around.
- Import to max
- Render your animation in a high quality render
- Video Editing Capturing
- Record all your capturing,
- set your camera to point at your in the system
- and your character on the screen
- Must have at least 1 character/actor that performs actions throughout the 1 minute clip
By now you should have
- Your 1 minute clip
- Your 1 minute Motion Capture data / max/ motion builder character rendered clip
- Your video recordings of you Mocaping
Assignment Requirement
Post Production
You are to analyze your capturing and the organic motions limitations through two means...
- A Video Report
- and A 1 page Written report
You explain the 1 minute clip while analysing
- The successful mimicked captures
- The unsuccessful captures
- Why were they unsuccessful
- How did you make them successful?
- Why can't you make them successful?
You are marked on
- Creativity in your content in the video editing and writing your report (under character Trailer assessment)
- Creativity in the visual scene (under character Trailer assessment)
- Your analyzing (under character Trailer assessment)
- Your success % in mimicking your 1-minute clip (under character Trailer assessment)
- If the actions chosen suits your characters personality. (under character Trailer assessment)
- The rigged character (under observation process assessment)
How to hand in?
SID = Your Student Number
SID = Your Student Number
- Week 4 Friday - Chosen Clip & Character Preparation
- Shown and signed off by Veronica
- The 1 minute video clip chosen for your assignment
- The character and scene ready for motion capture (modeled, textured, rigged, exported)
- Week 5 Friday - The motion list
- Shown and signed off by Veronica
- uploaded to jivi File Name - SID - Ass1Task2Beta.pdf
- A list of animation motions you have to capture for this assessment
- Week 7 Monday before 9 am - Character Trailer
- All zipped and uploaded to jivi File Name - SID - Ass1Task3Final.zip
- Video uploaded to Youtube.
- All posted onto the blog
- The video analysis
- The written report
- Include your original max and motion builder files
- The video recordings (does not have to be edited)
This is due week 7 when you have your mid semester exam
