Mocappys - Your Guide to Capturing and Editing Motion

How to Realign Motion Capture

Motion capture may require realigning from it’s original capture position for a number of reasons; for instance the data may require aligning with the environment or to make it more compatible with a game engine or crowd simulation. There are a couple of different ways to realign a character in MotionBuilder: One uses the often…

Creating a Looping Animation In MotionBuilder

In this post I will take you through the processes required to create a walk cycle from motion capture data. I have provided an explanation and possible work flow suggestions at each stage of the process. Hopefully this will enable you to create not only a beautiful walk cycle, but also help you understand some…

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…

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…

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 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…