animated portrait- scene 2

[Bendytoons]

this is the second piece with my animated self-portrait. Mostly it was a test to see how easily a second mo-cap session could be dropped on the puppet. My approach tries to do all adjustment on the puppet, rather than the mo-cap data. The goal is to just drop the action on the character and be 95% done. The reality was only about 85%, but that's not bad for a first shot. Here is a link to the piece on Youtube:

 

 

As with the last piece (

), I hope to post this on A:M films, but I'm waiting to hear back from HASH about that.

 

Ben

[Paul Forwood]

Very cool, Mr. Bendy!

[KenH]

Excellent progress and motivating speech! Maybe you covered this before, but can this resulting action be put onto any head with the same bone/pose names?

[Bendytoons]

Excellent progress and motivating speech! Maybe you covered this before, but can this resulting action be put onto any head with the same bone/pose names?

Basically- yes. You have to set up the puppet to work with the system. That involves adding a specific set of bones that hold the data, and using those bones to drive other bones and poses. So there is always some set up for a new puppet, but once set up you can just drop the action on and go.