MoCap Mishap (Patreon)

During the animation stream on Friday (9/28/18), we hooked up our second motion capture suit for the first time, and Kish and I recorded footage for the new animation in a single take.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of issues... The biggest of which was Kish's character randomly jumping above and below the floor plane while he was on the bench.  I fixed most of that before I created this preview video, but as you can see from Kish's arms and legs (to a lesser extent) randomly moving around, it looks like there were some other problems with the suit sensors.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the suit itself.  It was our first attempt at recording with two suits at once, and I think we just need to do some fine tuning <=)  So we'll probably be doing a few more takes today to work out the bugs before I decide on the final footage to use.

Otherwise, the result wasn't too bad.  The characters not quite lining up to each other was expected since Kish and I are about the same height in person, but our characters' heights are noticeably different.  It's also pretty difficult to set up our props (the locker and the bench) in the same locations that they are in the 3D scene, so a bit of editing will inevitably be required to compensate for that.

Overall, it seems like the mocap data will serve more as a rough framework for the scene that will need to be cleaned up and refined before it can actually be used in the animation.  Much like taking a rough sketch and turning it into a polished drawing.

Enjoy!