Check out how facial mocap helped Ian create this gorey re-imagination of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The speed at which you can produce realistic character animation with motion capture opens up a world of new possibilities.
Read more about how Ian uses Rokoko motion capture in his projects.
When I’m working on a scene now, I can just throw the Smartsuit Pro on and animate all the characters.” This, in turn, allows for greater creativity and more expansive animations despite your budget constraints.Īfter first using mocap animations, Ian Hubert - the artist behind the famous 1-minute Lazy Blender tutorials - said that he “ hadn’t realized how much of my workflow was based around just avoiding having to do legit character animation. Motion capture unlocks a new level of speed for Blender users. Nowadays, mocap is affordable, and its uses range from character animation for games to advanced previs and virtual event production. When mocap was first developed, it was used in high-end productions to animate fantastical humanoid characters. Motion capture is the process of recording a person’s natural movements and translating them into animation data for use in 3D software. What is Motion Capture & How To Create Mocap Animations
We’ll cover how to use this plugin below in the “Option 1” tutorial. Provided you have a rigged character that’s ready to go and pre-recorded motion capture in Blender this workflow takes less than 5 minutes. Rokoko’s free retargeting plugin for Blender assigns existing motion capture data onto your rigged character. Free Resource: Retargeting Plugin for Blenderĭownload Rokoko’s free Retargeting plugin here ➡ We’ll also show you how to do it all in a live stream environment.įrom now on, it’s safe to assume you can quickly animate characters with a human feel to them.
In the next 5 minutes, you can expect to learn how to use mocap tools (both free and paid) to get the character animation you need, without a single keyframe of manual animation. Hi ?, we’re the motion capture experts from Rokoko. With new tools, endless libraries of mocap recordings, and affordable mocap suits, you can get character animation for your next Blender project done in 15 minutes. How many strings do you pull to avoid character animation? Sure, animation can add a lot of life to a scene, but finding the time on an indie project is challenging. How to quickly make realistic character animations using new Rokoko motion capture tools in Blender