{"id":271,"date":"2024-03-22T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/?p=271"},"modified":"2024-04-13T04:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T04:04:54","slug":"week-9-updating-march-22nd-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/week-9-updating-march-22nd-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 Updating! – March 22nd, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Unreal On!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Fix overlap issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Apply root motion: \n
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      • Remove the first frame horizontal offset between Hip and Root<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Extract horizontal movement from Hip into Root\n
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        • (Since making keyframes for every transformation between each dance movements could be difficult and complicated, especially with complex choreography.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Modify poses\n
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          • \uff08For loop animation, the first and the last keyframes need to be identical.\uff09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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            • Retarget\n
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              • Retarget animations to metahuman skeleton<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Modify the results\n
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                • Overlap<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Scale<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Stretch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                    • Sequencer with animation blueprint<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Root Motion<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • No camera cut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                      ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u00a0~<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

                      Plan for Next Week <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                      1. Scene 5 & 6 finish<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      2. Refine scenes & prepare demonstration for special guests & faculty consultants\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                        (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.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u00a0~ Plan for Next Week <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/flow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}