MoCap fo Shizzle is an old expression for when Mocap was first introduced to pipelines in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But it still holds today. Mocap is indeed fo shizzle!

This workshop will take you through:

• How to set up and climb into the Rokoko mocap suit.
• How to set up and run rokoko studio.
• How to get the suit to talk to models
• How to record mocap data and export for use in other programmes.
• How to import data into Maya for clean up and use in rendering

For the purposes of this tutorial we will be looking at mixamo and HumanIk rigs (Maya) but the suits can be used for custom rigs too.

Desireable to have:

An unrigged character model in T or A Pose.

OR

A HumanIK/Mixamo rig in FBX format.

If you do not have this one will be provided here:

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Workshop Outcome Here:

This is the outomce of the workshop on 3d Mocap.

We started the session by getting into the Smartsuit 2 from Rokoko and hooking it up to the computer to enable wifi recording of sensors. It is generally a very quick process but we took about 10 minutes this time as we experienced some difficulties and had to hook up to a HotSpot on the phone.All this was done in Rokoko Studio.

We then went into Mixamo and downloaded some pre-rigged characters and hooked our suit up to them and calibrated for best results. We evenetually recorded the animation above using the green Fairy model from Mixamo.

After recording we cleaned up the animation in rokoko studio, setting the foot placement and tweaking. Then when in Maya we tweaked a little more and set up props such as desk chanir and computer before rendering (this rendering was done after the workshop).

When we had shown this process we looked at how to get our own curtome charcters both in HumanIK and in Mixamo rigged examples into rekoko studio for mocap work.

As with 3d 2d Mocap is also fo Shizzle!

This workshop will take you through:

• Setting up and callibrating Character Animator
• Using a webcam for Mocap on face/ troso and full body Mocap.
• Using sound recordings for lipsyncing
• Recording and broadcasting speech and expression live.
• Exporting body parts for use in other programmes/ composites

We will be looking at how we create a full character of our own but will not finalise a character due to time limitations.

Standard Hand Drawn Example:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M4BE_cpIofan7-8nch9UVyAmvYJpAUtD/view?usp=sharing

 Workshop Outcome Here:

So in the workshop we looked at charcter studio as means to achieve facial animation primarily but also to look at how we can achieve full body (well arms and torso as well.

Firstly we looked at how we broke down a model into component parts and how each part had a set of properties and rules that made it act in a specific way. We lloked an pins, rubber bands, bones and also some physics base dprooperties objects may have.

Next we looked at the breakdown of puppets used in the software in Photoshop and Illustrator. We noted the layer names and where there are + (plus signs) before layers and gorups and the meaning behind that.

Last thing we did was bring in our own face model and record some acting. This was the tweaked in the programme and was rednered ontop of a photograph to get the above image’s effect.

So illustration isn’t just for the holidays it’s for life! The 10000 hour rule in full effect! You need to be drawing every day! This workshop will take you through the design process for a character in a game/ animation/ children’s book/ comic etc.

This workshop will take you through:

• Why should we draw every day?
• How do we get ideas, inspiration and a starting point?
• How do we thumbnail ideas and decide on which will live and which will die?
• Anatomy of a character
• Detailing and linework
• Scanning/prepping for digital work.
• Digital painting introduction and concepts.

To do the workshop you must have:

• Pen/Pencil/markers/drawing equipment (I’ll be bringing a blue lead pencil, a black bic pen and a black sharpie)
• A3 Sketchbook (down in SU for less than a fiver.)
• Phone/tablet.
• Rubber and sharpener.

We will be using the Gridder app (shameless plug!) for this workshop. If you have an android phone you can down load from google play store here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelrogue.gridder&gl=IE) before the class. We will only be looking at the free features of the app so no need to purchase.

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I would have liked to do 2 different workshops on illustration but with numbers this seemed like a better option.So illustration isn’t just for the holidays it’s for life! The 10000 hour rule in full effect! You need to be drawing every day! This workshop will take you through the design process for a character in a game/ animation/ children’s book/ comic etc.

This workshop will take you through:

• Why should we draw every day?
• How do we get ideas, inspiration and a starting point?
• How do we thumbnail ideas and decide on which will live and which will die?
• Anatomy of a character
• Detailing and linework
• Scanning/prepping for digital work.
• Digital painting introduction and concepts.

To do the workshop you must have:

• Pen/Pencil/markers/drawing equipment (I’ll be bringing a blue lead pencil, a black bic pen and a black sharpie)
• A3 Sketchbook (down in SU for less than a fiver.)
• Phone/tablet.
• Rubber and sharpener.

r app (shameless plug!) for this workshop. If you have an android phone you can down load from google play store here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelrogue.gridder&gl=IE) before the class. We will only be looking at the free features of the app so no need to purchase.

Project Outcome:

During the workshop we worked our way towards this process of thumbnailing, refining sketching then taking the sketch into Photoshop to colour and finalise.

Here is a tutorial on waht was covered on the Photoshop side. This is colouring a pencil sketch without refining the linework:

Here’s another tutorial omn some topics covered today:

So story writing is a craft and a talent and a gift….. but it can be learned! I mean you may not be blessed with a vivid and fertile imagination but you should still be able to tell a story from a statement.

This workshop will:

• Cover the 5 step story rational in detail.
• Produce ideas for stories quickly and efficiently
• Look at character arcs and character grids
• Realise the importance of place and time
• Use AI to flesh out a story
• Rework this AI output for more natural and targeted writing.

As there are only 16 computers in 3337 if you have a laptop do bring!

Some reminder notes on what was covered in class.