Once you have a list of actions to mocap, the next thing to do is write down everything you’ll need know in order to perform them. When you’re planning a mocap shoot, it’s really important you know everything you can about the actions you’re going to capture. From the character’s motivation to the size and…
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How to Plan a Motion Capture Shoot | Creating a Move List
Planning is the key to any successful motion capture shoot. It really is the perfect example of “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” So, to help you successfully plan your next mocap shoot, we’re going to start by looking at how to write a motion capture move list. What is a…
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…
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…