motion builder

After Such a great shoot we now move on to the next step. This is where you clean up the animation, one big problem I have with my shots is that his feet are sliding around and are not making contact with the ground. this can be fixed using animation layers inside motion builder.

Motion builder is great for this clean up the rigs that it uses and the way you control the rigs make things very easy. The use of animation layers are a great help too they do a very good blend between animations and your fixed up animation.

wanding

We ended up re-shooting the shots of the short film in motion capture.  This was good this time in setting up the system when so smooth everyone knew what we were doing. When we did the wanding we got a very high quality reading. The previous time we did this took 3 times as long to get the same result and I feel that the capture data was smoother and of greater quality.

After going over the footage that we captured on Tuesday I think the results came out really well there were a few shots where the feet are going through the floor but this is a miner fix and happens even on the best recorded footage even out of studios. Motive seems like a easy program to learn and has very good control over what you need. Even tho we only captured really basic movements I think Motive has a lot of potential for larger and more complex scenes. It will be interesting to see how this system handles with more than one capture suit on.