RebelHill wrote:
Tbh though... ipi DOES need cleanup (as does pretty much every mocap system Ive ever seen) so not having an app somewhere to do that will limit your final quality of animation.
Yes, and the degree of iPi DMC clean up, I found in working on my shorts, depends on the shape of your character and what it's doing. For example, the 'Brudders' characters have really big heads and short arms, so it's easy to get hands inside the head whenever the characters raise their arms. The 'chainsaw dance' in 'Happy Box' is a prime example; this was fairly easy to correct in MB using layers, and it appears Jimmy|Rig should have no trouble fixing this sort of 'error' too. The other type of error I run into is if the characters are handling props, especially with both hands like with musical instruments. In such cases usually have to guide the hand positions using constraints, auxiliary effectors and layers. The first two shots with Sergeant handling the box in 'Happy Box' are good examples. This was a little trickier but not too bad if the original pantomime is somewhat accurate.
There are a few shots in Happy Box where there is virtually no cleanup. Of course, most of the short is the characters just sitting around. :p
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