Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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Here's some more updates. Finished modeling the gun. Wasn't looking much to match exactly the same look.
For the short, I think is good enough. Just need to work on the gloves and the shirt and I'm ready for the second stage: Rigging.
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Will leave the painting for later. Want to dive right into rigging and see how it will look like hehe
Finished Cowboy - YouTube
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I call it, Kung Fu Cowboy! The result was quite interesting indeed.
HumanIK Testing 1 - YouTube
As my character wasn't in T pose, I got some serious issues with weight painting. Not sure if those were bugs or not, but each time I finished fixing one weight, the previous one will heritage the last replace stroke... to sort this one I had to lock the bone name before move to the next one.
I'm redoing the whole HIK thing again. I'm having lots of fun
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Rig is looking good. I'm thinking the environment part of this project should be cool. Sculpting mountain ranges in ZB. Or Mud.
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Thank you for your words of encouragement. Appreciated mate. You read my mind, that's exactly what I'm going to do next. The Town.
Hi murambi
I never used mocap too, this is the first time and having tons of fun playing with it. HIK is really easy to use and speed things up really fast. Looking at some videos, I'm only scratching its surface. I heard that too, the with kinetic you can create your mocap files. That is something pretty cool. I don't have the Kinetic at home, my 2 years old at home, gives me lots of entertainment already haha.
Hi stwert
Thanks appreciated mate
Now remember guys, I'm not trying to create an Avatar here. This short is more of a personal learning path where I want to touch all possible departments, from modeling, sculpting, lighting, animation, rendering, compositing. Learning, researching, investigating while doing it.
Here's an update after repainting the weights and a much better initial pose (T pose).
A much better version in comparison to the very first test I did previously. Still need some fixing / minor weight painting in some parts of the body. As this was just an experiment with HumanIK + Mocap, I think is good enough for now. Moving on to build the set (Cowboy Town), starting some hard surface modeling / Texturing (Houses, Buildings, Lights, Street, Walls, etc). Once the scene is done, I'll work on the cowboy sculpting / texture ................... and finally, back to animation for the shots. Long way to go...
HumanIK Testing 2 - YouTube
Again, thank you everyone.
Cheers.
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For the last 2 week I've been researching for a way to do some motion capture for the little 3D short film. Although is still a long way to go, but so far, I've been making small progresses. After searching for a not so expensive system, I came up with the Brekel Kinect (Free). In short, allows you to connect your Xbox Kinect and link it to MotionBuilder for real life motion capture. This was my very first test, not everything seems to be fluid as I haven't calibrated the software yet.
There's an Ipi solution and it looks better, but I would have to invest some money on it. Will try it later and see if that is worth it.
On the left shows the Brekel softare and me moving around. On the right, MotionBuilder showing the skeleton mimicking my movements in real time.
Kinect (Xbox) + Brekel Kinect 0.50 + MotionBuilder 2012 - 1st Test - YouTube
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The motion capture, again, was done with 1 (one) Xbox Kinect and I can actually set up 4 to 6 cameras with the PS Eye in the room for better data tracking around me. The cameras are cheap $19 bucks each. The next step is to improve my acting skills! Any volunteer??? j/k Hahaha.
I did some video editing so you don't need to bare with the boring technical part. For those who might be interested, give me some time and I might do it showing you the process. Otherwise, just head to ipi dmc website and look at the procedure on how everything should be set up.
The next step is to improve the data tracking and once that is done, with all the motion capture done and tweaked, etc etc etc, it will be time to add it to my Cowboy. One gigantic step forward indeed!
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Yesterday, I managed to do the real time motion capture in ipi soft. Very intuitive and easy to use piece of software. Today, I managed to link my Cowboy to myself! IT WORKS!!!
The animation needs some cleaning up, but the workflow and the software proved itself. It works! This alone, have saved me months and months to no end of animation work.
Okay, the hardcore part is out of the way, next is to get back to Town scene modeling.
ipi Soft Mocap Mesh Skeleton Re-targeted - YouTube
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