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Creating a Looping Animation In MotionBuilder

By Mocappy 5 Comments

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… 

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How to Characterize your Character in MotionBuilder

By Mocappy 11 Comments

In this tutorial you will learn how to successfully characterize your character in MotionBuilder. Before you can begin using the character animation features in MotionBuilder you need to Characterize your character. The process involves 3 main steps: 01 Put the Character in a T-Pose Aligning your character in the correct T-Pose (T-Stance) is the most important… 

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How to Map Optical Mocap using MotionBuilder Actor

By Mocappy 6 Comments

In this tutorial I will show you how you can use MotionBuilder’s Actor asset to re-target optical motion capture data onto your character. Once the Actor is set up in this way it can be used to retarget optical data directly to your character either in real-time during a shoot for pre-viz purposes or after the… 

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MotionBuilder Fundamentals: Characterization + Retargeting

This Complete Step-By-Step Course will teach you everything you need to know to Characterize and Retarget Mocap onto you character – even if you’ve never used MotionBuilder before!

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Hi, I’m Simon Kay

My aim for this site is to share everything I’ve learned over the last 20+ years using MotionBuilder to help bring hundreds of characters to life at some of the world’s leading VFX, Video Game and Motion Capture Studios, including DNEG, Sony Interactive, and Centroid Motion Capture.

 

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