Animation POWERTIPS is Back! How to RE-EDIT MOTION CAPTURE EP01 - Season 02

[@SoGoN]

Love animation layers, a great way to show a quick iteration and keyframing the layer weight allows us to play with the intensity/influence as well.

[@harveynewman]

Yerp completely right Sogon, a very useful tool

[@jianyuan7670]

So great to see power tips back! And I am happy to see that there will be a series of mocap tutorials. I am also waiting for tutorials about MG tools because it has too many functions but I don't know where to apply them.

[@harveynewman]

Thanks Jian. That’s a good idea.

[@Aaron_miraz]

This one is essential, motion capture is required this days and you can advance a lot with it.

[@harveynewman]

Thanks Aaron. Look out for the one next week. ;)

[@Benimation_anim]

Nice! I use this same method when editing mocap. Great vid as always!

[@harveynewman]

Nice one Benny.

[@morbid1.]

Motionbuilder is designed for mocap work... I don't even know how in maya you would start doing it... It seems like maya is further down the line where mocap is retargeted and cleaned up and you focus on polishing it.

[@harveynewman]

It’s a matter of choice really, some studios use motionbuilder to do the whole clean up, others use it as a bridge to add motion capture to characters/rigs before going into Maya to do the clean up. But you can do the whole process in Maya as well as long as you use tools like Red9 to bring you data onto your rigs.

[@octaviosilva5808]

My animations are very floaty, maybe a video about that next 😀

[@harveynewman]

Thanks for the suggestion Bruh, please submit a video and I’ll try and answer that in a future episode.

[@david.mugabo]

Nice, amazing lessons

[@harveynewman]

Thanks 🙏🏾

[@dioidia]

very helpful harvey! thanks a ton for the wisdom! :D

[@harveynewman]

Always happy to share :)

[@NaviYT]

Hey man! Quick question: I’m trying to edit mocap data for a first person shooter video game. My best example of what I’m trying to accomplish is that I have a generic reload animation for a rifle. I want to adapt this reload animation to serve multiple weapons by creating an animation for each weapon. Would I be able to use the animation layers in maya to accomplish this? Such as changing the position the hand grabs the magazine from and then if the weapon has a bolt, make that animation pull back the slide? Basically I’m asking, is this for small edits only, or can we do large changes to the mocap data using animation layers?

[@harveynewman]

Hey Navi..you can absolutely do that. Just make sure your first weapon is as vanilla as possible so you can build and modify upon it. If you make it vanilla, bigger edits are possible...if not only smaller edits. You might want to check out this first person tutorial I did quite a while back as it might help you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXqnhJtveddgb6c

[@FancyFun3433]

Hey Harvey! Would you do a segment on realtime animating? There is a program called Tvori and basically you can grab the character and move it to animate it. They have this time slider that slows the animation down so you can keep up with the action For me its really good at giving me a base animation and it looks awesome for how little time I put into it

[@harveynewman]

Hey Funky. Welcome to the channel, and I wasn’t aware of Tvori. Sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll give it a try.