Critical Update - Motion Capture Test (Patreon)

Before you read on please watch the video linked above. 

You done it......?  Good!

As I am sure many people are aware of the animation slowdown, this is for a good few reasons but one of the biggest reasons is what this video is about.

I have been in touch with the people at Rokoko.com about there motion capture suits as a lot of you will be aware.

I spoke to one of the engineers in order for them to record and send me a sample file specifically for Blender in BVH format as Blender doesn't support ASCII FBX formats. 

So the past few weeks been trying to figure it out when I can between projects and after cracking 90% of the the problems I set myself the task of "How quick can I get to 90%".

This is after 40 mins setup (Not cleanup) its faaaaar from smooth and perfect as the hands are not even bound to the model correctly, BUT it works as what I would expect before cleanup.

Clean up for this scene would be about 2-3 hours depending on what else would be interacting it (But not days).

So what does this mean, well I get my lovely female friend to don the suit and go nuts deep on a dildo and I record the lot of it, or potentially get two suits and hire some actors. 

For me to even get the base animation animated by hand in the video above could be weeks potentially and I would miss all the subtlety that mocap gets.  

My apologies for animations taking so long and didn't want to release this information until I had it at a stage where it was actually use full.

So.... YAAAAAAY im ordering me a Mocap suit today :D

Going to cost $2550 plus 20% import taxes ontop of that so I bloody hope its good!

If you guys want to know more about the suit please go look at Rokoko.com

Hope this clears up some of the fog for the past few months and I am so excited to have a play.

Director.