Mocappys - Your Guide to Capturing and Editing Motion

How to Export a Character to MotionBuilder

Every character animation project I’ve worked on in MotionBuilder has always started in another 3D package. So, I thought it only seemed right to start my first video tutorial in the same way. In this tutorial you’ll learn all the settings you need to successfully export your character to MotionBuilder using the FBX exporter plug-in. I’ll take…

4 Step Motion Editing Workflow: How to Edit Motion and Create Characters

Correcting Motion Capture is only part of the motion editing process. The real skill is taking that motion and turning into the thoughts, feelings and emotions of a character. Just like any animator you need bring your character to life by showing the audience what your character is thinking and feeling by the way it…

How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Mocap Shot List

Now you have a full and extensive list of actions you want to capture, it’s time to assemble them in to some sort of order. One of the best ways to do this, if you haven’t already been doing so, is to enter them in to a spreadsheet. Begin simply by creating a column containing…

How to Merge Characters in MotionBuilder

The issue people often have is, once they merge a second animated character into a scene, the original character stops moving. In this post I will explain how to merge two animated characters into the same take in MotionBuilder and hopefully prevent this from happening. Open the first file Open the first character file. File>>Open the first…

How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Creating a Move List

As I stated in one of my earlier post, planning is the key to avoiding pain, misery and expensive mistakes when beginning any motion capture project. I thought now might be a good time to write a few posts to try and explain the types of things you should be thinking about at the start…

How to Characterize your character in MotionBuilder

In this tutorial you will learn how to successfully characterize your character in MotionBuilder. Before you can begin using the character animation features in MotionBuilder you need to Characterize you character. The process involves 3 main steps: T-Posing – This is the most import part of the process, requiring accurate alignment of the character’s limbs….