2644_Ass2Task3Final

2917 - Michael Beta Version!!

2930_Assignment3_beta version

assignment 3, beta version, haven't clean the motions yet.

2885_Cheerio_StoryBoard&MotionList

Appologize for my terrible drawings.....but if you read the line that I've written down and the camera descriptions, you will understand...

2802_chris_storyboard

2644_StoryBoard&MotionList

2930_Motion List and StoryBoard

2885_Cheerio_Assignment2

Hi, everyone, this is Cheerio, with my character – Bluey~

As the theme is about weird animal, so I made this piggy like character with duck feet.

After recording all the motion captures, few problems that I found during the process:

n If you want it works better, or perfectly, you need to have the following characteristic for your character: enough length for arms and legs, thin enough, foot shouldn’t be too wide. Because, with short arm like my character, Bluey, she’s not able to touch her own face; and sometimes when she sits down, she will not be able to reach the ground. With wide foot like Bluey, when she walks, left foot always fights with right foot. With short leg like Bluey, she can’t really perform a very open action. Apart from that, of course the character itself should have a good rig. Obviously, my Bluey got some problem at her navel; I should say that is probably a rig problem.

SOLUTIONS: After some testing, I found that in order to avoid the hands goes into the stomach that the actor need to remember where are their limits for both the head and the fat body of the character. Of course we can also just make the hands slightly higher than the normal T position as Veronica has mentioned in the class. The problem of having Bluey’s foots too wide, Carl helped me with that by telling me that I need to stand with my feet leave a bit further away from each other, the result shows that it works~

n When Bluey tried to sit, I meant when he fell down, it always break the skeletons.

SOLUTION: Make the character fell down slower, and then import it into 3ds max and select the fell part key frames and scale them, make them quicker. That’s why that I gets up so slowly and carefully, and it works perfect~

n When walks for a long distance because of the area limited in the Motion capture room, and the limitation of the area that the cameras can catch, we can’t walk freely.

SOLUTION: Keep walking in at one spot, or a small area, and then drag the biped forward in max.

n The most annoying part should be this, when we import the animation into the scene, the feet of the character always goes into the floor.

SOLUTION: Well, I think the only way to fix it should be just key frame by hand, or someone need to improve this organic motion capture system, to make the system recognized the feet touching the floor.

Finally, I really enjoy myself with this new organic Motion Capture System which we don’t need to carry something too heavy with us while acting.

2524_Vivienne_MocapAssignment

Hi~This is Vivienne.My character’s name is Ben. He is a lovely crocodile.I use motion capture to recording a video for him.

At first I do the model is so cute （short arm short leg），but it is hard work in motion capture.

I change the leg and arm to become longer ，I feel better~ it can do easy things, can do dance and do ratation.

I want do the acation like a hip-hop dance，it is hard for me.lol~ And also hard for my character. His leg and arm still not longer enough.

When I do the acation like squat,he will become distortion.When I use the props _chair ,I want to stand on the chair.He is become broken. And also I cant sit on the chair,his tail will become so strange.

And my charcater’s left arm have little problem.it cannot move more. I donot know why .maybe I do it not well in 3Dmax.

I selected the clothes that I think the cream can easy to capture.And it is ~~

By the way I get many useful information from this recording~~

Thank you~

hi, guys.this is my pre-product video version.
as you see,it is not very good. but I still want to upload this video.because it can clearly illustrate the problem of this system.
1.the reason is that i want to show how important the camera is.in this record process. one camera didn't work, so it could not catch my action obviously.the whole system is totally misunderstood my motion. therefore, before the record process, it is necessary to check and re-check whether the whole system work or not.
2.we should avoid the close motion as much as possible.we can see every frame i want to do close motion, the whole system is not working well.
3.the system may only catch the body of the human, but can not recognize the other things. so we have to create the other thing in the 3d. sometime, it takes a long time to match the body motion. it is expensive and inefficiency.
4. the organic motion capture is not very accuracy.
5. the organic motion system still takes a while to set up. it still need two people to work together.

2644_Teresa_MocapAssignment2

Hello~~~ This is my character, Little Cow. She is dancing in the garden. I made this animation with the Organic Mocap.

In performing, the MoCap capture all the actions successfully what I did and reaction these movement on my character Little Cow accurately and timely. Her movements are quite smooth. In general, capture and production are quite successful. As you see in my recorder, I took an iPhone props when I was acting.

In the recording, I have a few of the problems in the process. Because this dance is relatively fast and smooth, so in response of the character act has a bit slow and unstable. When on the official record, I deliberately slowed down the pace. On the original Clip, the character has a normal physique. It does not like my character have a fat body. As this, when I did my action like put hands or arms close to my body, I have deliberately moved them slightly to the outside or raise them. Therefore, my character did a similar action when the arm will not run into the body.

I found some strange activities of my character’s toes, it like my character always dancing on tiptoe. But in fact I did not go to dance on tiptoes. Some of my friends said that the bones of feet are too much out of my character’s feet, and some say that the skin weight may not adjust very well. I tried modified, but still not much changed. There is another problem of the left arm on my character. When she did some action, the left arm will occur the strange distortions. My friend told me because the shoulder bone of my character was out of too much, but the same size for my right arm, was not has this strange distortion.

That is all my report, although there were a lot of trouble, but overall the process is still quite enjoyable, especially in record time.

Thank you for watching!!!! :D

2802-Tutorial Week 5

How to Set up Character from Max > Motion Builder
1.Put the character on T-position and the character stands on the center floor of world
2.Turn off the figure mode
3.No animation
4.Export as .fbx


How to Set up Character in Motion Builder > Motion Capture
1.Build a new folder with your .fbx file and texture
2.Set a favorite path in the assets browser
3.Device→Drag om device on stage.
4.click online,live,recording →create a model binding→rename character and characterise
5.Drag your own model on stage→ rename--3d max biped temp, characterize→character input on model, and stance input on om, tick both live.


6.device→ recharacterise, reset tracking


How to Record and Plot Animation To Characters Skeleton
capture face enable

user calibration save as .omu file →recharacterise, reset tracking→click start→overwrite→ finish by T-position→stop record→take off online →non-record→choose character →plot→skeleton→change stance input→deactived→save as .fbx


How to Export Animation from Motion Builder > 3Ds Max


get out of figure mode→click biped→import .fbx and update scene→save

2930 - Tutorial week 5

How to Set up Character from Max > Motion Builder
the character should be mesh, biped it on T-position(Better have the character no bigger than the grid.) export it as .FBX file(no animation)

How to Set up Character in Motion Builder > Motion Capture
*have your files ready in one folder (texture folder should be under the folder too)
*Open asset browser in motion builder, add your folder in by using "add favorite path".
*Under template/Device>drag OM device into the scene
*In navigator window - Device - OM device > tick online>live>recording>createdrag *drag your character into the scene
*asset browser - template/character - character drag into the OM yellow bone.
*asset browser - character - 3dsmax biped template drag into your character's bone
*Navigator window - characters> rename character to OM (stance input, active)
*Navigator window - characters> rename bip001 to your character's name(character input,active)
*Navigator window -Device>click Recharacterize and reset tracking

How to Record and Plot Animation To Characters Skeleton
*make sure the recording is tick on OM device
*The actor go in, T-position, capture face enable,user calibration, save and load.
*In transport controls press red record button, press play starting record, press stop to stop record.
*OM device offline, untick recording, press play to see the result.
*Navigator window - characters>your character, plot character>skeleton>Plot.
*save as

How to Export Animation from Motion Builder > 3Ds Max
*open your character(mesh, not in figure mode) in 3DS max
*import>update>ok
*save as

2524_Tutorial _Week3

Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

1.Organic system is use 14 cream under the inf-red lights to get the action, the motion capture must wear the suit then can get the action.
2. Organic system is easy to get action. the motion capture is different need get the heavy suit then can get the acation.
3.OS easy to broken and cannot to the acation like sit,but motion capture can get the acation like sit.
4.OS ‘s can do more comples than MC,because the MC need a wire.actor cannot move a lot
5.OS’s is easier to operate than MC in system.

1.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages
1.easy to get action
2.get the data fast
3.can do action more flexible
4.need not wear the heavy motion capture suit.
5.so interesting
Disadvantages
1.need more place to put 14 creams
2.can’t do the action quickly
3.can’t squat, or something like that
4.cant get the details of action
5.if you wear white clothe, the effect maybe good enough.

2890 - Tutorial Week 3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prothetic motion capture suit.

1.The prothetic system requirs user to wear the suit, but in organic system, user doesn't need to wear anything.
2.The prothetic system can record small movement sush as the fingers. But Organic system can not.
3.They based on different ideaolody.
4.They use different software to record.
5.They use different initialize position.


2. Explain in your own words, 5 adcantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system.

Advantages
1. No suit requirsed. The actor can do difficult movements because there are no cables.
2. More accurate. It's new technolegy so it can capture motion perfectly.
3. The recording softwares are good.
4. Ealiy to use. Saves a lot of times.
5. The record can be used in most of the popular softwares.
Disadvantages
1. It can't capture details such as fingers movements.
2. There are some blind spots in the system.
3. It's expensive!
4. The actor cannot do some certaine positions because they will cause the system breaken.
5. It's based on infrared so some material may make the system mistake.

2644 - Tutorial week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

The prosthetic motion caputre suit do not need special place to put, it is very portable. The organic system need special place to put and work.

When people use the prosthetic motion to capture the movement objects, it does not require the line of sight, but the organic must require this and it has distance limit.

The organic system does not restrict the actor's movement, the actor can do anything in its range freely. Prosthetic motion restricts the actor's move.

The prosthetic motion use suit to capture the movement and wires to convey the data, The organic system use 14 cameras to capture the movement.

The organic system cannot move or touch its cameras, it will has some mistake on motion capture, The prosthetic system just cannot be destroy the boxes and lines on suit, when you move them, it capture the motion as well.


2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Advantages
The Organic Motion does not restrict the actor's movement.
The Organic Motion has low lag.
It is very easy to get in the model.
It can reflect the movement on computer quickly and accurately.
It does not need many wires and heavy machines to capture the motion.

Disadvantages
Need special place to put and capture motion.
It cannot capture 2 or more actor's movement at the same time.
It cannot capture details of the action.
It cannot caputre fast and intense action.
It requires more than one camera to capture motion and cannot move the cameras.

2715 - Tutorial week 3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

* You don’t have to take time to wear the prosthetic motion capture suit for recording the animation at the organic system. You just need to go into the camera zone and start to animate.
* The character’s open action and close action are difference between these two system.
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Open action- T position;
Organic Motion system: Open action - T position, extend position.....
Close action - bend the body
* Space limitation.
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Because of the wire has the length so the actor can’t move a lot and he just got a little space to move.
Organic Motion system: There is quite a large space for the actor to move when he is animating. The actor movement space is in the camera zone.
* Camera
Prosthetic motion capture suit: It doesn’t need to set the camera to catch the actor’s action except the head suit for catching facial
Organic Motion system: there are 14 cameras to catch the actor’s action from different direction.
* Facial Catching
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Using the only one camera at the head suit to record the facial from the actor.
Organic Motion system:Using the little dot sticker on the actor’s face to catch the facial action.

2. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Advantages:
* easy to animation with the character
* easy to move around at the camera zone
* have more space to animate for jumping and dancing
* take a little time to animate the movement for the character
* the actor feel more comfortable instead on wearing a heavy suit to doing different action

Disadvantage:
* it can’t have 2 or more characters to animate at the same time
* the actor can’t bend the body
* if the actor’s hand close to the head, it will can’t catch the actor’s movement and it is easy to the close action
* The actor can’t close to the cameras for animating because the system can’t catch the action
* The actor can’t doing the action too fast because the system can’t catch and record it.

2890 - Tutorial Week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Using motion capture we can easily get huge information of realistic human movement in a very short time. Hand made animation have to do a lot of work to achieve that effort.

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.

Step1 Move the motion capture suit out.
Step2 Move the chest part form the model and put it on the actor. Make the frame banded on the actor tightly.
Step3 Install the arm part, the leg part.
Step4 When the wearing is all finshed. Check the distance between frames and human, make sure it's two fingers.
Step5 Adjust the suit, make sure it's symmetry.
Step6 Plug the censers to the gyroscope.
Step7 When the connect is down. Turn on the power.
Step8 Open the test software, see if all the censers are working perfect.
Step9 Open the X-recorder, record the motion.
Step10 Open 3DSmax 4, Open the xrc file and transfer it in to src.
Step11 Open the src file and export as bip.
Step12 Done.

3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Bad: Cable! Cable! Cable!
Heavy! Heavy! Heavy!
Good: It can captures motion.

4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

You can jump, roll, fly, double back-flip in the new system.

2802 Tutorial Week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
1.we do not need to wear the heavy suit.
2.The organic system has more cameras than the prosthetic motion capture suit.
3.There is a limit area for the organic system but the prosthetic motion capture suit only has the line limit and it can be add the length.
4.It is more easy to do the jumping action in the organic system but for the prosthetic motion capture suit is too hard.
5.In the organic system the actor can not do the close action otherwise it will crash but the prosthetic motion capture suit can do that.




2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages:
1.It is easy to recording the action.
2.For any size of the actor
3.It is save time
4.No wire limit.
5.Do not to wear suit.

Disadvantages:
1.If too close to the camera that you can be recorded.
2.It is easy to crash if you do some close action.
3.If you do not have hire or the hire is too long that you the organic motion system can not catch the actor.
4.The lighting is uncomfortable if you stay for a long time inside the room.
5.Must wear a pair of the sock.

2749 - Tutorial Week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
Answer:
1. the organic system is light and convenient.
2. compering with the prosthetic system, it is able to catch any open motion on your character.
3. the organic system can not catch cloth properly.
4. the light of the camera is harmful to eyes
5. the actor do not move with the heavy suits

2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Answer:
Advantage:
1.light
2.convenience
3.not limited when character move
4.not require wearing wired cloth
5.the data can be transfered in motion builder

disadvantage:
1.hard to catch close the motion
2.the camera requests the very clean environment
3.can not recognize over one people motion at the some time.
4.the camera is harmful to eyes
5.the area is too small.