Collaboration Class: Animation Motion Capture – ? Curious Pictures Studios, NY

I’ve been meaning to update my blog with some new work. Here are a couple of new types of animation software that I’ve been working with in collaboration with ? Curious Pictures Studios. The first software is called Vicon IQ. It is the system that is used in the movie industry to record an actors movements. The movements are then translated into animation for CGI. First I start out by labeling the key points on the actor. This software includes all the crucial elements needed for motion capture, simplifying everything from system configuration to actor setup and delivering motion capture data of the highest accuracy. Aimed at film, game, broadcast and post studios, It ensures what you capture is what you deliver. Below is what I have been working on recently in Vicon IQ

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Motion Capture from Dennis Malcolm on Vimeo.

Doing this short motion sequence took me editing nearing 6,000 frames of animation one by one & many, many hours of work, but it came together in the end.

After I finish labeling the skeleton animation in Vicon IQ, I import my skeleton into MotionBuilder. Autodesk MotionBuilder is the next software that I use. MotionBuilder is a real-time 3D character animation software can make film and game animation pipelines more efficient. MotionBuilder also enables you to create more and higher quality animation. You can create, edit, and play back complex character animation in a highly responsive, interactive environment that is ideal for high-volume animation, virtual cinematography, pre-visualization, and performance animation. Here is some of the work that I’ve been doing recently. In this software, I start working on correcting the key frames for production.

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