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Using Omniverse Audio2Face in Animated Film Production
June 29, 2023NVIDIA Omniverse includes Audio2Face, an AI powered audio clip to facial animation tool. Give it a voice track, and it can animate the face of ...
3D Animation Technical Styles
April 23, 2023There are a wide range of approaches to achieving 3D computer animation, each with its own pros and cons. In this blog I summarize many ...
AGRoL, Avatars GRow Legs at Meta
April 21, 2023I 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 ...
Precise positioning with walk animations in Unity
February 16, 2023When you use a walk animation in a Unity Timeline using an Animation Track with Scene Offsets applied, you may come across a problem where ...
Video Motion Capture EOY 2022
December 18, 2022Motion capture from video files has improved with time with some recent new entrants on the field, so I thought I would give a quick ...
Why I am excited for Mocopi
December 4, 2022Mocopi (I assume a play on "Motion Copy") is a relatively low cost motion capture device announced by Sony for release in 2023 Q1. There ...
Motion Capture Tools (my 2022 list)
October 6, 2022Here is a list of motion capture (and related) tools I have come across on twitter or similar. Feel free to leave a comment for ...
Animation Hair and Cloth Physics Bounces
May 15, 2022One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...
BVH to Humanoid Animation Clips for Unity
December 5, 2021I 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 ...
Using Deepmotion.com to create custom walk cycles
July 6, 2021I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page ...
What is the fastest way to create an animation clip or pose on a budget?
April 11, 2021I am trying to create a comic series using 3D VRoid characters. So far it has been more learning than creating content. I have slowly ...
Example Expressions from Blendshapes with VRoid Studio, HANA_Tool, and Unity
January 15, 2021This post includes an update on my plans to do expressions with VRoid characters for the purpose of creating short animated video clips using Unity ...
First Experiences with Low End Motion Capture Tools
December 17, 2020Yesterday I wrote a blog post on a list of low end motion capture tools. Today I thought I would share my opinions and (limited) ...
Low End Motion Capture Tools
December 16, 2020One of my personal challenges is how to create 3D animated content with relatively low effort and decent quality. I have been building up a ...
3D Anime Approaches (and thoughts for myself)
November 5, 2020My personal goal is to create an semi animated comic. In particular, create a "web story" per episode of a series. I do not plan ...
Riding a Scooter in Unity with VRoid Characters
October 30, 2020I wanted to have a character ride an electric scooter. I am not going to worry initially about mounting and dismounting, but I do want ...
Changing Facial Expressions (part 3)
October 14, 2020I recently shared a blog post on a Unity script I am experimenting with to add ARKit compatible expressions to VRoid characters. Of course the ...
Animating Hand Poses in Unity
October 12, 2020I have described challenges in animating facial expressions in a previous post. Facial expressions are based on "blend shapes" to adjust the shape of the ...
Unity Locomotion Package Trials and Tribulations
August 23, 2020Runevision developed a locomotion system for use with Unity. It deals with issues such as walking over sloped or uneven surfaces, making sure the feet ...
Using Animation Clips with VRoid Characters in Unity
August 16, 2020In this post I describe my current plans for animation of VRoid Studio characters in Unity (using animation clips). I might change my mind on ...
Making Characters Move in Unity
July 28, 2020A common requirement is to have characters move around a scene. There are different ways of achieving this with different degrees of complexity. As I ...
VRoid Studio Characters and Animation in Unity
July 26, 20203D models are created by external applications and then loaded into Unity as assets. Characters, furniture, buildings etc are all models. VRoid Studio can export ...