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Lighting for Cartoon Animation in Unity
January 14, 2022I am using Unity with VRoid Studio characters to create a series of cartoon episodes. Unity supports "real time" and "baked" lighting. So which to ...
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 ...
Hosting your video rich web stories
August 24, 2021I have been exploring creating an animated comic using Google web stories, a HTML format designed for vertically oriented video and images. One of the ...
Pixar's Universal Scene Description
August 15, 2021I 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 ...
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 ...
Prefabs vs Prefab Variants in Unity
July 3, 2021I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab ...
The New Unity Sequences Support for Cinemachine
June 25, 2021(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 ...
Designing Scene Shots with Lens Settings in Unity
June 19, 2021I subscribe to MasterClass.com and a new lesson series from James Cameron was just released (yes \ the\ James Cameron) where one of the lessons ...
Anime Scene Analysis (Fruits Basket)
June 14, 2021I still dream of creating a lightly animated anime styled comic, using VRoid Studio characters in Unity (an engine for creating games). Even if I ...
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 ...
Great advice for writing a good story, by some old guy
March 20, 2021There are probably some great books on how to write good drama scripts, but I came across a reference to ‘The Poetics’ written by Aristotle ...
Web Stories and Comic Speech Bubbles
March 7, 2021I am planning to reboot my "Extra Ordinary" animation series using web stories. The animated version was fun, but I found it too hard for ...
Tiling for Expressions with VRoid Characters
January 19, 2021If 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 ...
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 ...
Creating your own animation teaches greater appreciation for the experts!
December 31, 2020I 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). ...
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 ...
Plot and Story Structure
November 6, 2020If you search online for how to structure Manga, Anime, a Webtoon comic, or more you will find various discussions on what terminology to use ...
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 ...
Unity Blendshapes to add Muscles to VRoid Characters
November 3, 2020VRoid gives you a lot of flexibility over many things of a character, but arm thickness is not one of them. You can control the ...
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 ...
Animating VRoid Facial Texture Changes in Unity
October 19, 2020Some expressions involve changing the face structure (a smile is created by a blend shape) while others involve changing the texture of the face (like ...
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 ...