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Motion capture is great but it almost never quite fits the location or the character rig. Often it requires a little tweaking or, worse still ,modifications are needed that take the data further and further from the source file ( Rifles are changed to pistols etc).
Animation layers are useful but only get you so far until your simply fighting the data trying to figure out when and where things are happening.
Eventually we have to dismantle that wall of motion captured key frames into something more manageable.
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I wish I’d made this. I’m currently writing a very dry document to basically say the same thing.
The open source community never ceases to amaze me.
Openprocessing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
Organised Keyframing: A method for 3d animation.
A few years ago I sat down with my friends from AvP and we went through our individual approaches to animation. My hope was to pick the best ideas to create something we could teach new animators. What we discovered was that over the years and with very different backgrounds we had all gravitated to the same idea.
The idea was this…