Week 9 Updating! – March 22nd, 2024

(3.18-3.22)

Unreal On!

The new dancing motion capture data has been processed. In between the point of receiving mocap data and the application on the metahuman dancer, there is a complicated journey for our technical animator to go through. 

• Clean up
  • Fix overlap issues
  • Apply root motion: 
    • Remove the first frame horizontal offset between Hip and Root
    • Extract horizontal movement from Hip into Root
      • (Since making keyframes for every transformation between each dance movements could be difficult and complicated, especially with complex choreography.)
    • Modify poses
      • （For loop animation, the first and the last keyframes need to be identical.）

• Retarget
  • Retarget animations to metahuman skeleton
  • Modify the results
    • Overlap
    • Scale
    • Stretch

• Apply
  • Sequencer with animation blueprint
  • Root Motion
  • No camera cut

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Plan for Next Week 

1. Scene 5 & 6 finish
2. Refine scenes & prepare demonstration for special guests & faculty consultants