Observation - Tutorials W1 to W3

Semester topic - Weird animals

Tutorial Week 1 Tasks Due week 2

1. Design a Character and define his/her personality, the character has to be designed for the semester topic

2. Model and texture a 3D character, ready for rigging(must have at least 2 limbs, legs, arms)

Question Tutorials Due in class week 1

1. Explain in your own words, What is motion capture?
2. Explain in your own words, What is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion Capture
3. Choose a Game or a Movie and explain/ show videos,  their motion capturing process, company name, year, clip.
1. Games
1. Assassins creed 2
2. Empire: Total War
3. Heavenly Sword
4. Tony Hawk's Project 8
5. Silent Hill : Homecoming
6. Metallica
7. God of War III
8. Guitar Hero
9. Resident Evil 5
10. Real Golf 2011 iPhone
11. Elven Legacy
2. Movies
1. iRobot
2. Avatar
3. LOTR
4. Monster House
5. The Polar Express
6. Beowulf
7. Titanic
8. The Patriot
9. The Pirates of the Caribbean: The curse of the Black Pearl
4. Mocap A -Explain your assigned motion capture system

• 1615 - Magnetic
• 1852 - Prosthetic
• 2668 - Passive Marker Optical
• 2713 - Inertial
• 2917 - Acoustic
• 3097 - Facial Motion Capture
• 3255 - Active Marker Optical
• 3847 - Organic

• Mocap B - List 4 Advantages & Disadvantages for your assigned motion capture suit & why would we use the motion capture suit

• 1880 - Magnetic
• 2299 - Organic
• 2524 - Acoustic
• 2644 - Magnetic
• 2715 - Organic
• 2749 - Acoustic
• 2802 - Inertial
• 2837 - Optical
• 2885 - Optical
• 2890 - Inertial
• 2930 - Prosthetic

Tasks Due week 3

1. Change to Edit MESH in 3Ds Max

2. Map/ Texture your character
3. Choose / Cut / Edit 1 Minute Video from a film or game that you like that has 1 character in the whole sequence.
4. MUST show to Veronica

Question Tutorials Due in class week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?
2. Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
• Explain  details and use keywords 
• gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.
3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.
4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

Tasks Due week 4

1. Model an environement for your character

2. Map/ Texture your environment
3. Choose / Cut / Edit 1 Minute Video from a film or game that you like that has 1 character in the whole sequence.
4. MUST show to Veronica

Question Tutorials Due in class week3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
2. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system