Animation Progress- Walk Around the Clock!

 Hello everybody in the world! Mackenzie's back with a whole new bag of tricks! 

I'm still learning, but I'm delighted to share with you that I have learned a lot more about Maya in the time since Industry Review! While I'm not perfect (nobody is), I'm happy with the strides I've made in my animation, tech art, and 3D modelling since starting at FIEA.

But you came to this post for animation, now didn't you? 

So, let me show you what I've been up to! 

So here are my animation projects for this week- I took Box Fox and Boney and made them do a little walk. I wanted to have time to get to do the run and idles, but you know how time goes. It never stops moving! 

Maybe I can have my animated characters help me prep for my upcoming 5K... we can run together!

Okay, that was just cheesy! But, it's true. I'm going to keep working at my animations and try to attempt a run cycle in the coming days. Look out for it!

But, in the meantime, I've taken it upon myself to learn a little more about MotionBuilder this week. Not just because there was an assignment... Well, mostly because there was an assignment. But honestly, it's cool to know how to apply the motion capture data that we take in our MOCAP workshops. 

And also, one of my favorite games is almost entirely motion capture. If you know me well enough, you know which one. 

But Wonderworld aside, I attempted a MOCAP animation! It's not perfect, but I'm happy I was able to actually pair the magnets properly to my actor. My first rendition looked like a Slenderman-esque creature. Glad I didn't take any video of that nightmare fuel. 

Okay, seriously now! 

MOCAP incoming!

Sorry the video is so long. The MOCAP data itself was long. And trimming it is not a power I have yet. So, each walkaround is about 38 - 40 seconds, hence why the whole dang thing is almost 5 minutes. As you can tell, in my first renditions of the MOCAP experience, I had issues with his hand bending. I kind of fixed it as I went on, but I still had issues. 

Overall, I learned a valuable lesson with this assignment.

There's a lot that I don't know yet!

So I'm gonna keep learning. 

See you soon!