The Big Red Stripe channel on YouTube has come great videos for filmmakers. I was watching The EXACT System Pros Use to Revise Their Screenplays ...

I want to create a short series on YouTube, using AI generated video. I posted previously about my planned pipeline. As I have learnt more ...

NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant ...

Film and TV production has a rich history and culture. Personally I am trying to use AI to speed up the creation of a simple ...

SyncTwin.ai has a cool feature where you can take a PowerPoint visual and an Excel spreadsheet to assemble a factory scene in OpenUSD. Very nice! ...

How to do a Digital Clock (or other counter) inside an NVIDIA Omniverse scene? There are UI widgets, but they are painted on the viewport ...

Omniverse have announced Omniverse Cloud, "a fully managed platform as a service offering for developing generative AI enabled OpenUSD applications." While full details are yet ...

I have been exploring using Generative AI (LLMs specifically) to assist with going from a screenplay to an animated video, learning about relevant technologies along ...

In this blog post I explore sending and receiving message bus events using the NVIDIA Omniverse framework in Python. I create two extensions: one to ...

Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the ...

A personal side project is converting textual descriptions of camera positioning (for filmmaking) to a machine readable form. Screenplays normally do not include camera directions ...

I have been exploring OpenUSD (formerly USD from Pixar) for creating computer generated animated videos. I create the characters, backgrounds, and animations as 3D models, ...

NVIDIA Omniverse includes a number of AI based tools, including Audio2Face and Audio2Gesture. Audio2Face takes an audio file and generates facial blend shape animations. Audio2Gesture ...

I am interested in OpenUSD for portability of content. Instead of being tied to one rendering engine, my content can be rendered in multiple tools. ...

Want to add a bit more "life" to your video voiceovers, but don't want to show your own face? How about using a 3D avatar, ...

I sometimes listen in on the Academy Software Foundation (https://www.aswf.io/) sessions. The latest Web OpenUSD online meeting had a presentation by CloudZeta, OpenUSD for 3D ...

In my last post I introduced the approach of using Google MediaPipe to control VRM character facial expressions. Hasn't this been done before? Yes! There ...

I am working on a web based 3D animation project where you can create an animated video using 3D character models, like a cut scene ...

Generative AI can be great for background images in animated videos. Want a single shot walking along a path? Creating a background image can take ...

I am working on a project where I want to manipulate Skeletal Animation clips (for 3D computer animation) in JavaScript, then export to USD. Depressingly ...

TL;DR: In this post I explore the pros and cons of using OpenUSD directly in web applications. What is OpenUSD? "Developed by Pixar, Universal Scene ...

I have been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse and the standard it is built on, OpenUSD (aka USD). It provides a number of ways to animate objects ...

I am trying to work out how to do various cinematic effects in Omniverse. This post is one step on that journey, particularly for "God ...

At SIGGRAPH 2023, Jensen Huang (founder and CEO of NVIDIA) described Omniverse as more of a connector of tools, rather than the only tool you ...

SIGGRAPH 2023 kicked off this week and the keynote was from Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO. I have been using NVIDIA Omniverse, so I ...

I created a scene using NVIDIA Omniverse standard assets. No movement in the trees or grass. Ideally want some wind to give the feeling of ...

I am trying to identify a good solution for dangling hair bounces and cloth (e.g., a skirt) in NVIDIA Omniverse for characters/avatars. The recently released ...

In NVIDIA Omniverse (and OpenUSD in general), animation clips are tied to a specific set of skeletal bone names. This is fine if you create ...

NVIDIA Omniverse includes Audio2Face, an AI powered audio clip to facial animation tool. Give it a voice track, and it can animate the face of ...

I am trying to bring VRoid Studio characters into NVIDIA Omniverse. Omniverse has powerful deformers and particle cloth physics support which I am still exploring ...

Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description) is for modeling 3D worlds such as used in computer animated movies, 3D video games, VR/AR experiences, architecture, and robotics ...

I have found the Writing Excuses podcast (and archives) very useful to learn about the art of story writing. One I found particularly useful was ...

I have been working on getting a VRoid Studio character imported into NVIDIA Omniverse. VRoid Studio is free software by Pixiv for creating 3D avatars. ...

I am an individual developer, but would like to have the option of running renders in the cloud without tying up my desktop. Most of ...

NVIDIA Omniverse has two levels of licensing. A free license for up to 2 users, and an enterprise license designed for teams deployed on premises. ...

I have been using Unity for a while to create Cartoon Animations, and have recently been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse to see how it has been ...

I am exploring the ability to import VRoid Studio created characters into NVIDIA Omniverse for animation and rendering. NVIDIA Omniverse is based on the USD ...

Today's NVIDIA Omniverse livestream featured what, to me, was the most compelling vision of the potential of their platform I have seen yet. Meta placed ...

In a movie (or in my case, an animated cartoon), dialogue can make or break a scene. For animation, the visual aspects may take a ...

I want to create NDVIDIA Omniverse projects with a backup of all my files in the cloud so I don't lose everything if my desktop ...

The "Omniverse Basics, Create for Production Part 1: USD and Layers" video describes how things work technically, but I found the "why" hard to understand ...

There are a wide range of approaches to achieving 3D computer animation, each with its own pros and cons. In this blog I summarize many ...

I love the progress Meta are making (https://dulucas.github.io/agrol/) on animating the lower body from just a VR headset and hand controllers. Personally I would love ...

From the NVIDIA website, "NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop Universal Scene Description based 3D workflows and applications." ...

Just as generative AI has been stirring things up with 2D images, people are also looking hard at 3D models too. One great little video ...

NVIDIA Canvas is an interesting app in the NVIDIA Omniverse suite of tools. It can create a 360 view image of plants, rocks, mountains etc. ...

Is video created via generative AI going to kill off CG animation (like Pixar movies)? I don't think so. I do think generative AI is ...

There is a lot of buzz going on around AI generative artwork. Rather than art generation, I am personally interested in AI tools to speed ...

6:15 PM I am exploring assembling scenes for computer animation from text based on AI. This is partly because I would like to speed up ...

I have a number of assets from the Unity Asset Store some paid, some free. I hunt around in them for various models that I ...

Are sympathetic characters the same or different to engaging characters? This was a topic on an old Writing Excuses podcast (episode 9.10). The answer is ...

In my last blog I introduced this new series on applying machine learning to screenplays with the goal of automating some of the tedious steps ...

This is a first post in a new thread looking at using machine learning to speed up my process of assembling camera shots in an ...

For my hobbyist animation efforts I started with friends as voice actors. However, not having many friends… I mean, it is hard for my numerous ...

Back in 2021 there was a forum thread on video quality for the MP4 recorder. A few people reported getting poor quality MP4 files recorded, ...

When you use a walk animation in a Unity Timeline using an Animation Track with Scene Offsets applied, you may come across a problem where ...

To make stories more interesting, do you need conflict or do you need tension? Can you create tension without conflict? I was just listening to ...

Here is my current implementation of captions in Unity, the writing you see at the bottom of the screen that shows what the character is ...

Motion capture from video files has improved with time with some recent new entrants on the field, so I thought I would give a quick ...

Mocopi (I assume a play on "Motion Copy") is a relatively low cost motion capture device announced by Sony for release in 2023 Q1. There ...

I have been working on creating my own animated cartoon using 3D computer animation. This is a personal hobby project, so I have been taking ...

Spy x Family (pronounced "Spy Family") is a popular manga series now available as an anime. It has some great characters and a fun plots. ...

One effect I used in my first episode is rain to amplify the mood. This involved raindrops on glass windows, rain falling from the sky, ...

Unity recently published The complete overview of Unity toolsets and workflows for technical artists, an ebook summarizing many Unity technologies and concepts directly relevant to ...

Here is a list of motion capture (and related) tools I have come across on twitter or similar. Feel free to leave a comment for ...

I am creating a simple animated cartoon using Unity and the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). One challenge that comes up is how to control ...

I am using Unity Sequences to create a cartoon series (slowly). It is probably more accurate to say I am learning the technology to create ...

Some students were asking about using Unity in the Unity Forums for creating a short animated film. Limited access to the computer at school, strict ...

In this post I describe how I am planning to get the exposure right when using the Unity Sequences package with the High Definition Render ...

I am (slowly!) working on creating an animated cartoon series using Unity 3D to animate the characters. I am upgrading the project from the older ...

Added Aug 20, 2022: Please note: This post can still be interesting, but if you want my final answer, check out this newer post. One ...

Another masterclass series from the Writing Excuses podcast that I found interesting on script writing as M.I.C.E. This stands for Milieu (a place or location) ...

Anime style animation (and cartoons in general) normally use cel shading 3D computer animation shading, but made to look more flat. So before you start ...

This is my summary of a podcast I found on YouTube (its available on multiple platforms) from "Bulletproof Screenwriting", an interview with Karl Iglesias (author, ...

There are many great resources out there on how to move the camera for a great camera shot. Here I share a few videos introducing ...

The following is how I upgrade my 2021.2.0b5 projects to 2022.1.1f1 (my new baseline version). I am doing this as there have been a number ...

Depth of field is a Unity camera effect in allows you to blur the background and foreground, creating greater focus on your character. I recently ...

In this blog I talk about the artistic side of deciding what to include in a location design. I am using Unity to do my ...

What are the normal stages in creating an 3D animated video? There are variations depending on whether you are doing a full length movie, a ...

I am in the process of upgrading my Unity project from the Built in Render Pipeline to the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). HDRP does ...

The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated ...

One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...

I came across "The Upload: The Rise of the Creator Economy" as a podcast, discovering later it’s the audio track of a YouTube series, backed ...

There was an Animation Rigging incompatibility with Sequences in Unity which has been fixed in version 1.2.0 of Animation Rigging. (It results in lots of ...

As a content creator, how can you efficiently turn your creativity into something you can share with others to enjoy? I ask this question of ...

Ever wanted to quickly capture ARKit facial blend shapes for a OpenUSD project? There a number of free tools around, but I wanted to share ...

I am using Unity with VRoid Studio characters to create a series of cartoon episodes. Unity supports "real time" and "baked" lighting. So which to ...

I subscribed to @MuRo\ CG's "PlayAnimaker" on Pixiv. He is doing some cool work with using VR headsets for Anime style output. You can use ...

I have been exploring creating an animated comic using Google web stories, a HTML format designed for vertically oriented video and images. One of the ...

I just came across Pixar's Universal Scene Description language. It’s a file format they use for all of their movies. It was interesting to see ...

I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page ...

I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab ...

(UPDATED Jun 28, 2021 to reflect my greater understanding.) Just a quick blog of my initial experiences and understanding of the new sequences support. I ...

I subscribe to MasterClass.com and a new lesson series from James Cameron was just released (yes \ the\ James Cameron) where one of the lessons ...

I still dream of creating a lightly animated anime styled comic, using VRoid Studio characters in Unity (an engine for creating games). Even if I ...

I am trying to create a comic series using 3D VRoid characters. So far it has been more learning than creating content. I have slowly ...

There are probably some great books on how to write good drama scripts, but I came across a reference to ‘The Poetics’ written by Aristotle ...

I am planning to reboot my "Extra Ordinary" animation series using web stories. The animated version was fun, but I found it too hard for ...

If you have watched Suvidriel's YouTube channel you will know you can have multiple textures for your VRoid character face, clothes, etc using tiling. This ...

This post includes an update on my plans to do expressions with VRoid characters for the purpose of creating short animated video clips using Unity ...

I am having a go at a 3D animated comic series. I am getting closer, getting the ground work out of the way (e.g. https://twitter.com/xordinary99/status/1344592878509572096?s=21). ...

Yesterday I wrote a blog post on a list of low end motion capture tools. Today I thought I would share my opinions and (limited) ...

One of my personal challenges is how to create 3D animated content with relatively low effort and decent quality. I have been building up a ...

If you search online for how to structure Manga, Anime, a Webtoon comic, or more you will find various discussions on what terminology to use ...

My personal goal is to create an semi animated comic. In particular, create a "web story" per episode of a series. I do not plan ...

VRoid gives you a lot of flexibility over many things of a character, but arm thickness is not one of them. You can control the ...

I wanted to have a character ride an electric scooter. I am not going to worry initially about mounting and dismounting, but I do want ...

Some expressions involve changing the face structure (a smile is created by a blend shape) while others involve changing the texture of the face (like ...

I recently shared a blog post on a Unity script I am experimenting with to add ARKit compatible expressions to VRoid characters. Of course the ...

I have described challenges in animating facial expressions in a previous post. Facial expressions are based on "blend shapes" to adjust the shape of the ...

I previously wrote a post on Changing Facial Expressions where I went through the basics of how to control facial expressions in Unity. Since then ...

I have been exploring iFacialMocap, an iOS app that uses the iPhone "ARKit" library to convert facial expressions into a series of movements. These can ...

One of the projects I plan to undertake is to create a cartoon series using "web stories", a format for browsing through visual content on ...

My goal is to create characters in VRoid Studio and then use them in an animated video created in Unity. A part of this challenge ...

Runevision developed a locomotion system for use with Unity. It deals with issues such as walking over sloped or uneven surfaces, making sure the feet ...

In this post I describe my current plans for animation of VRoid Studio characters in Unity (using animation clips). I might change my mind on ...

VRoid characters in Unity include "Blendshapes" (called "Shape Keys" in Blender) that morph the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth on the face to create different expressions. ...

The eyes are an important part of acting. They convey a lot of emotion, from their shape to what they are looking at. It is ...

By default, characters loaded into Unity using UniVRM do not blink. You can animate blinking yourself using animation clips, but UniVRM also provides a script ...

This post provides a list of my blog posts related to VRoid Studio and Unity for creating animations (movies, short cartoons, etc). I will come ...

A common requirement is to have characters move around a scene. There are different ways of achieving this with different degrees of complexity. As I ...

In this post I summarize the Unity terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Cinemachine is a package for Unity design to create cutscenes or ...

3D models are created by external applications and then loaded into Unity as assets. Characters, furniture, buildings etc are all models. VRoid Studio can export ...

There are a few foundational concepts that are worth understanding in Unity. These concepts are used in a variety of ways, as will be shown ...

In this post I give an overview of how to install VRoid Studio and Unity. Both products have installation instructions that I recommend you read ...

"I wonder how hard it would be to use VRoid Studio and Unity to create an animated movie?" I am starting this series of blog ...

I have been creating a series of Live Streams on put into a playlist called "Project Wookie" on my Behind the Scenes channel on YouTube. ...

I have previously shared two videos on YouTube on some ideas for syncing animation with a music track in Adobe Character Animator. But there as ...

After hitting some delays with volunteer voice actors, I decided to have a go at turning my animation into a comic. No voice actors required! ...

I just did a YouTube video of some ways to get more precise recordings of hand positions etc. Hopefully contains some useful tips. (This page ...

This is just a pointer to a post I did in the forums, so I can find it again later: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2520232. Basically the physics collision ...

This is a pointer to a forum post I did, so I can find it again later. It talks about the need to fix the ...

This post is for intermediate Adobe Character Animator users. It goes into “behaviors” in greater depth than may be first clear from reading the user ...

Adobe Character Animator (Ch) integrates with other Adobe products such as Adobe After Effects (AE) and Adobe Premier Pro (PP) using a feature called “Dynamic ...

Character Animator can do some cool animations, but it does not have any build in support for titles or captions. So how should you go ...

With Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) being all the rage, tools for 360 degree views are getting better. Even this WordPress blog can ...

A common issue for newcomers in the Character Animator (Ch) forums is getting eyes to work correctly. They are a bit finicky, but I find ...

Well, I thought I was pretty well done and ready to publish episode 1. I had the animation all complete, voices all recorded, a final ...

It took me a little to find, but generating videos from Unity 3D turns out to be not that hard. (Well, its not 100% sorted ...

My previous post on Project Structure was before I had completed my first episode. So, what has survived as I move on to episode 2 ...

This is for some background filler for a future episode. I wanted to get a bit of nature in the background, so decided to have ...

The characters may be tweaked further before they are introduced into various episodes, but some early photos introducing the main characters. Sam, the center of ...

In this blog I describe how I am organizing my project of creating an animated cartoon episode. Please feel free to share your experiences in ...

In this post I describe the tool chain I currently use behind the scenes to create an animated video clip. It’s basically the Adobe Creative ...