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…
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…
How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Move Requirements
Once you have written the first draft of your list there are a number of technical and artistic requirements you need to consider about each action before you capture any motion. Review each action and add as much detail as possible to it. Ask yourself ‘if I had to explain to someone how to perform…
Using MotionBuilder Story Tool
This tutorial will explain how to use the MotionBuilder Story Tool to create animated cut-scenes or pre-vis sequences. I will guide you through every step of the process from importing your characters and environment into MotionBuilder and animating them using the Story Tool to plotting and saving the finished animation. The Story Tool allows you to create…
Quick Start Guide to Motion Capture
In this post I hope to provide you with a very broad overview of the motion capture processes from beginning to end. I’ve tired to cover many of thing you will need to think about at each stage of the process in the order I usually approach a new project. Hopefully this will help you understand the work…
5 Things to do BEFORE you Characterize Your Character in MotionBuilder
In this tutorial we’re going to look at 5 quick things you can do to your character BEFORE you characterize it that will make it easier to work with in MotionBuilder. These might seem a bit random at first, but this is exactly what I do every time I import a new character into MotionBuilder….
Understanding MotionBuilder’s Control Rig
The Control Rig is one of the 3 ways you can animate a character in MotionBuilder. It is MotionBuilder’s Full Body FK/IK character rig and although it is designed for editing mocap, it can also be used for animating characters – it just requires a little translation into more animator friendly terminology. Because the Control Rig was originally designed to…
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