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…
What is Motion Capture?
So what is Motion Capture, Performance Capture or Mocap? In it’s simplest form it is the recording of the motion of an object by a computer using a series of sensors. As a process it is the planning, recording and integration of that data – It’s the people in Lycra suits covered in shiny ping-pong…
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…
Complete Guide to Pose in MotionBuilder
Whether you’re mirroring a hand pose, looping an animation or adding pre-built poses to actions, applying a pose to a character is something you’ll do almost every time you edit a file in MotionBuilder. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use the Pose Controls to create a library of poses you can save, merge…
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…
How To Create a Walk Cycle in MotionBuilder
Creating a walk cycle using motion Capture is one of the best ways to learn the tools and techniques you’ll need for motion editing in MotionBuilder. In this tutorial you’ll learn: How to Import Mocap Data How to Select a “Loop-able” clip in Story How to Fix Foot Sliding How to Create and Apply Poses How…
MotionBuilder Pipeline
In this motionbuilder tutorial I will take you through the processes involved in preparing and exporting your character into motionbuilder and then importing your lovingly crafted animation back on to your character. Because of the many different possible combination of plug-ins and software versions I will try to make this tutorial as generic as I…
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