After the motion capture talk a few weeks back, Ben and I decided to team up and figure out how we can use motion capture for our work in the future.
I have been playing around with Motion Builder over the past couple of weeks and have gotten used to the software. We originally set out to use motion capture data to create a piece of animation using characters of our own or from the Internet although we didn't realise how hard it would actually be.
The furthest we got with it was combining a C3D file from the Internet with the standard human character model that comes with MotionBuilder. The Quicktime at the bottom shows our result from this experimentation.
Sean showed us a couple tutorial videos to help us with our task. The links are below ...
These videos were very helpful in our task. Thanks very much to Sean for showing us these videos.
MotionBuilder screenshots
The C3D file we downloaded from the Internet
Combining the C3D file with the standard human character in MotionBuilder
The character has been fully bonded with the motion capture data
QuickTime movie
We got the C3D file from here: