Creating
the animatic was a bit more time-consuming than I had supposed it
would be. Even though I knew that I wasn't creating the best
animation possible, I did still want to make something that was
adequate, and that nicely represented what the final image might
actually look like.
In
fact, my own animation skills from my previous projects probably show
in great detail in these animatics. That is, when I was finally
complete with the animatics, I realized that this animation was as
high-quality as I had ever done on my previous works: not very high
quality animation. I remarked to myself that if I didn't insist on
creating a higher quality film this time, I would now be done with
all production except rendering.
However,
I did want to get higher quality animation. My initial plan to get
this would be to use motion-capture technology that I had secured, using IpiSoft.
The problem, of course, is that I hadn't yet used the software or the
hardware, and I was intimidated by the learning curve that this was
sure to bring. In fact, in our past use of this motion-capture tech
on our video games, it was quite a pain to get usable animation, and
even then, there would be a lot of post-capture details that needed
to be ironed out.
Another
problem with the motion capture tech that we had is that we used two
sets of Kinect cameras, which required two video cards on the
computer. My own computer, however, did not have this, so I would be
limited to one Kinect camera, unless I bought a new computer with two
video cards. This would be quite an expense.
In
any case, before I even got started with the motion capture software,
another animation solution fell in my lap...
This Homeless Guy research video from a few years ago presents some of the challenges and benefits of using motion capture. In this case we used IpiSoft.
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