In this training, Instructor Markus Hammarstedt goes through the entire pipeline of taking several motion capture data files and creating a complex final scene. He starts off by giving an overview of the UI and then shows how to export your character from Maya and get it into MotionBuilder. From there he goes into assigning the bones and creating the bind pose. Next, he assigns the markers to an actor and takes that actor to retarget the motion capture to the character. Markus then takes the raw Mocap animation and selects the sections to use in the scene and create clips out of them. He then takes the clips and blends them together to get a rough idea where they need to go and then fixes the timing to make everything look better. After that, he goes into character controllers and then the hard work of polishing the animations to look more natural. Finally, Markus shows how to take everything into UDK to create a full scene, complete with a matinee sequence with sounds, particles, and camera animations. 

This training is perfect for those who want to learn more about motionbuilder and how to create a complex production scene. 

About the Instructor:

Markus Hammarstedt has been working with Animation and MotionBuilder for over 4 years and worked on such games as Bulletstorm, Terminator Salvation, and Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. Markus has worked for over 2 years at Epic Games / People Can Fly and is currently at MachineGames, a ZeniMax studio, working on an unannounced project.

Training Chapters:

00 - 03min - Introduction
01 - 07min - Interface Overview
02 - 04min - Exporting from Maya
03 - 05min - Assigning Bones
04 - 10min - Creating the Bind Pose
05 - 11min - Assigning Markers
06 - 11min - Re-Targeting the Mocap
07 - 05min - Animation Crop
08 - 16min - Blending Clips
09 - 10min - Adding Props
10 - 06min - Positioning with Clips
11 - 17min - Walk and Timing
12 - 12min - Controllers
13 - 44min - Attacker Tweak 1
14 - 37min - Attacker Tweak 2
15 - 55min - Victim Tweak
16 - 30min - Final Tweaks
17 - 05min - Exporting for UDK
18 - 12min - UDK Import
19 - 20min - Matinee
20 - 03min - Adding Sounds
21 - 11min - Animating the Camera

Apps Used - Autodesk MotionBuilder 2012, Unreal Development Kit (UDK).

Duration -   over 5.5 Hours

Instructor - Markus Hammarstedt

Filesize -  985 MB (3 zip Files)

Project Files - Included are the UDK files and MotionBuilder file as shown.

*** You can download the training and project files immediately after the payment.

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