Mocappys

Your Guide to Capturing and Editing Motion

How to Use MotionBuilder Story Tool to Create a Cut-Scene

Once you’ve captured all your motion and set up your characters, the next step is to combine everything and start blocking out your cut-scene using MotionBuilder’s Story tool. MotionBuilder Story Tool MotionBuilder’s Story Tool is a non-linear editor that lets you build a cut-scene or mocap sequence by adding animation clips on to a track… 

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How to T-Pose and Characterize your Character Using MotionBuilder Python

Before we can start applying all that lovely motion capture we got from our Xsens MVN mocap system to our characters, we’re going to need to put them in a T-Pose and Characterize them…I know, I know…ANOTHER tutorial on how to T-Pose and Characterize a character in MotionBuilder… BUT WAIT, this one’s different… What if you’re working… 

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How to Use an Xsens MVN Mocap System

In this post I’m going to show you everything you need to know to capture data with the Xsens MVN motion capture system – don’t worry, there’s still a MotionBuilder tutorial at the end of the video… We’ll start with how to wire the suit, calibrate the system, and capture some data. Then we’ll look… 

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We’re going to need mocap, lots of mocap…

What’s next for Mocappys? So, after launching my MotionBuilder Fundamentals Course over the summer, I decided to set myself a new challenge: How much of the iconic “Lobby Sequence” from The Matrix could I recreate at home using an Xsens MVN Animate Motion Capture System and MotionBuilder? I’d been trying to think of what to… 

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How to use MotionBuilder’s Control Rig to Edit Mocap

Following on from the walk cycle we created in the last tutorial, in this video I’ll show you how to use MotionBuilder’s Control Rig to edit the walk and give it that final layer of polish. The Control Rig is MotionBuilder’s Full Body FK/IK character rig and while it’s perfect for motion editing, the names and behavior… 

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How To Create a Walk Cycle in MotionBuilder – Video

Learning how to create a walk cycle in MotionBuilder is one of the best ways to learn the skills you’ll need for motion editing. Not only is a perfect blend of technical and artistic skills, it also involves many of the tools and techniques you’ll use on a daily basis in MotionBuilder. In this video… 

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How to Plot and Export Mocap from MotionBuilder

And so we come to the final part of my MotionBuilder Workflow Tutorials “How to Plot and Export Motion Capture from MotionBuilder” In this video I’ll show you everything you need to know to plot and export mocap from MotionBuilder on to your character. How to plot data from the Control Rig to your character… 

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