[Facial MoCap experiments]

William Sutton has the 'grandaddy of all BVH toots' at zandoria.com but I'll sum them up.

 

A BVH motion capture file is a skeletal motion file that imports nicely into A:M (Make a new action and import a character. Select New/Biovision BVH/ and then find the file you want to load and load it. The BVH will load frame by frame and may take a while for a longer BVH. You will then see a series of BVH skeleton bones in a tree separate from your characters rig. You will need to select THE parent BVH bone and rotate/scale/position it to your rig, whether just the face or the whole body, as close as possible. Then- using 'Orient Like/Constrain To/ Aim at' and other constraints you can 'nail' your rig to the BVH's bones...one by one. Then adjust adjust adjust until happy. The beauty of it is that once you have one installed you can then go back and load another BVH action over the first (Good time to use Save As...) and avoid all the constraining the 2nd 3rd 4th time 'round.

 

Happy Animating!

 

In case of the Zign Track BVH files is not not necessary to rotate/scale/position the rig. You only need the 'orient like' constraints (with compensate) Only the rotation of the BVH bones is used.

I should make special tutorial for this but I don't have time for it at the moment. I found the use of BVH files very easy when I did it the first time. I hope others will find it's easy too. (is that correct english? )

 

 

What do you Do If you have got a beard and the spots dont stick.

Barry

[Facial MoCap experiments]

Here is another test of Zign Track: Silent Song

 

I had to strip out the sound for copyright reasons. Anyone got a song that they want to donate for testing purposes? :)All your music fully credited on any videos distributed. These will only be shown on YouTube, GoogleVideo or on my website but it may give you a bit of exposure that you wouldn't otherwise get and people can be directed to your own website.

 

I guess I'll go back to dialogue.

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Edit: Is it just me or is the internet slowing down? (It must be my ISP).

I tried to put this up on YouTube but my connection kept cutting out during the upload.

 

Looks great Paul, Great work Luuk.