2015
Digital Tutors
Delano Athias
1:28
English

In this series of MotionBuilder and Maya tutorials we'll learn how to blend between a motion-captured performance and keyframe animation in MotionBuilder.
The objective of this course is to demonstrate how to add animation that we keyframe ourselves to a performance-captured sequence. The difficulty is making sure that the animation we hand-key is done so in a way that does not ruin the illusion of the animation as a whole.
We'll start by learning how to Characterize a custom skeleton in Maya so that it can be animated in MotionBuilder. We'll then send our Maya asset over to MotionBuilder and animate it using MotionBuilder's robust and intuitive retargeting tools. Afterwards, we'll learn how to alter the performance in a way that allows us to keyframe part of the sequence ourselves.
And to conclude the course, we'll learn how to transfer our character animation back to Maya. By the end of this MotionBuilder and Maya training, you'll have the understanding you need to animate comfortably in MotionBuilder.

1 Introduction and project overview
2 Characterizing a custom skeleton in Maya
3 Finalizing our Characterization and exporting to MotionBuilder
4 Characterizing the mocap skeleton
5 Retargeting animation in MotionBuilder
6 Refining the animation
7 Altering the performance
8 Blocking in the end of the performance
9 Polishing the animation with Moving Holds and Motion Trajectories
10 Animating with auxiliary pivots
11 Finalizing the performance
12 Exporting the performance from MotionBuilder to Maya

Download File Size:582.03 MB

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