Advance Diploma - Motion Capture – Virtual bodies
By now you should be familiar with the limitations and the functionality of the motion capture system.
This final animation ends your journey on this subject, you are to present your final findings of motions capture and the experiences you have had in class.
You must plan well, because you will be capturing the interactivity in class in week 9
This final animation ends your journey on this subject, you are to present your final findings of motions capture and the experiences you have had in class.
You will be choosing a partner to work with and use their characters to interact with yours in the animation.
Though you are interacting with another class mates character, it is an individual work and you are all handing in a separate assessment.
So here’s what you guys have to do...
Each team is given a set of Emotions
Assessment 2 - Major Assessment 2 - Final Animation
Your task is to storyboard a 1-3 minute animation for your character.
Each person will have 1 storyboard focusing on your own character
The story must include 2-3 characters interacting with each other.
The storyboard has to include the motion list that includes both character interaction, prop interaction and non interaction.
You will be ACTING out by capturing both your actions in the motion capture system and also capturing the characters actions.
You will take all those animations and will be cleaning all your animation for rendering.
You will be presenting your experience, your plans and success in Week 12.
This means your animation must be completed within week 11.
Only if your teacher accepts it in week 12, it is then confirmed that it is handed it. If not, you must go back to clean and re-render your animation
Each person will have 1 storyboard focusing on your own character
The story must include 2-3 characters interacting with each other.
The storyboard has to include the motion list that includes both character interaction, prop interaction and non interaction.
You will be ACTING out by capturing both your actions in the motion capture system and also capturing the characters actions.
You will take all those animations and will be cleaning all your animation for rendering.
You will be presenting your experience, your plans and success in Week 12.
This means your animation must be completed within week 11.
Only if your teacher accepts it in week 12, it is then confirmed that it is handed it. If not, you must go back to clean and re-render your animation
>>> Task Checklist Process
PREP
- Your Storyboard includes Planning for your animations
- Music
- Camera Angles
- Camera Movements
- Shot types
- Scene Transitions
- Motion List
- Timing
- Sound Effects
- The animation story -
- Does not have to be a STORY,
- It is a showcase of your character in ACTION
- Scripted by you
- Have interaction (touch hold collide etc.) with another character
- Can be another version of your character OR
- Can be a class mates character
- Have interaction with props
MoCap
- Organic Motion Capturing
- Use your acting skills & knowledge of the systems limitations
- Motion capture both your characters by following your storyboard and motion list plans
- Video Capturing
- Record your self in the motion capture system with the character on the screen
By now you should have
- Your video recordings of you in the system
- Your motion capture data
- Your storyboard / motion list
Assignment Requirement
Post Production
You are to clean your motion capture data through either max or motion builder, depending on which your are most comfortable with
- The animation should last 3 minutes
- Include the AIT logo, Your Student Number and your name at the beginning and end of the animation
- This should be an extra 3 seconds at the beginning and 3 seconds at the end.
- Include proper credits
- Edit your entire animation and clip creatively
You are marked on
- Detailed planning on the storyboard/ motion list and able to follow it
- Creative content of the animation story/ advert/ mv etc.
- Creative video editing, Variety of appropriate & creative camera angles , Animation Timing
- Data Clean up
- Completing all requirements
- Render quality and seamless editing
How to hand in?
Your Student Number = (SID)
Your Student Number = (SID)
- Week 9 Friday - The storyboard and motion list plan
- uploaded to the blog and uploaded to jivi File Name = SID - Ass2Task1Story.pdf
- The storyboard and motion list
- Week 10 Friday - Alpha The Animatic (Rouch animation - Recorded all animations with sound and time)
- uploaded to jivi File Name = SID - Ass2Task2Alpha.zip
- uploaded to youtube
- posted onto the blog
- The rouch animation with camera angle, timing music and sound effects
- Quick/ small render - (Not a detailed render)
- Week 11 Friday - Beta Animation - 5 - 10 seconds animation with detailed render
- uploaded to jivi File Name = SID - Ass2Task3Beta.zip
- uploaded to youtube
- posted onto the blog
- Week 12 in class - Screening Presentation
- Presentation, Screening and possibly re-renderings
- Show the storyboard - explain story quickly
- Show the Animatic
- Show the Animation
- 1 good / 1 bad experience with the system
- What would have you done differently
- uploaded to jivi File Name = SID - Ass2Task3Final.zip
- Burn on CD if files are too big with properly designed CD cover
- The animation
- Include your original max and motion builder files
- 10 cleaned BIP
- The video recordings (does not have to be edited)
This is due Friday week 11
Present in Week 12 class
Present in Week 12 class
