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Here’s another face motion capture test! This time Zavala giving his classic Valus Ta’aurc mission speech.

Credits: - TheJudSub, WinterPsycho, and all the other awesome people who ported the models - The body movement is a free sample from Reallusion which happened to line up perfectly! - Dozens (hundreds?) of generous users at SheepIt who contributed to rendering - Of course Lance Reddick and the talented artists at Bungie

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This was my first body motion capture project. The body movement is a bit rough but it’s much harder to get convincing mocap of a whole person compared to just the face when on a low budget! I’ll improve it with practice though.

The face was done with my usual method of face capture - a phone attached on a bicycle helmet using a selfie stick - while the body was captured with an old Kinect V2 and the free version of Delicode’s NI Mate.

Big thanks to Bosmeroya for extracting the Batarian model and providing the voice acting, and D0lphin for helping me with ideas for the voice modulation!

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You can download the 1080p video here.

And also check out this behind-the-scenes look (or download it too)!

This is my third motion capture test, using Rocksteady’s amazing high-quality Batgirl model which I extracted from the game, edited and optimised for Blender. There’s no audio because my hope is that the mouth movements match the subtitled dialogue convincingly!

Some parts needed to be animated manually - the eye movements, blinking, head/neck rotation and tongue were all done quickly and roughly by hand as the main focus was getting the motion capture tracking working correctly.

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Upside Down

Inspired by the blue butterfly from Life is Strange, with a few variations on my storefronts as I just couldn’t decide on a single final piece.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything! I’ve been caught up in a lot of stuff, but I’m still working on art here and there.

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Motion Capture Tests

Edit: I'm not sure if this is embedding properly, video link here

I noticed a couple of comments on my Supa Hot LiS gif when it was shared around, which dismissed it by claiming that it was motion captured (why would that devalue it as art anyway? 😅). Given that I spent a couple of months painstakingly copying the original material and still wasn’t happy with it, that was quite flattering! But it got me thinking, maybe I can do some DIY mocap without access to an expensive dedicated studio...

The left footage was my first test with a willing volunteer, done by painting a bunch of makeup dots on their face and filming them with a camera on a tripod, then tracking that in Blender and haphazardly applying it to Chloe’s face rig. Unfortunately it’s impossible to keep your head perfectly still while pulling expressions, and despite trying my best to stabilise the video you can still see Chloe Price’s facial features uniformly shift around unnaturally.

For my second test I followed this tutorial to build a rudimentary face tracking helmet, then placed sticky dots on my own face (using Vaseline to get them to stick to my beard!) and filmed it. Once tracked, I used animation retargeting to get a better result because my face doesn’t quite match Zavala’s. It’s still very amateur, but for an hour’s work it provides a fantastic base animation to then improve upon. The Zavala model was kindly extracted and shared by WinterPsycho, which I then edited slightly.

Both clips were rendered very quickly in Eevee, and I’m really excited to continue practicing this alongside learning traditional animation!

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Chloe Price Photoreal Boot

A while ago I started trying to remake Chloe Price from Life is Strange in a more photorealistic interpretation. I only managed her boot before other projects took my attention, but I’m still happy with how it turned out and would like to continue at some point!

Left is one of the many references I used, from some website I don’t remember. Middle is the original model from the game. Right is my new one :)

It was modeled and rendered in Blender and the materials are entirely procedural - meaning they’re generated from nodes rather than manually painted, and can be rendered at any resolution without loss of quality. Figuring out the stitching was a fun challenge too! Although one thing I’m really not happy with is the white line at the top, which could use some work to look more natural.

Higher resolution on Imgur here

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I wanted to make some reaction gifs that could be sent to friends, links to share them below!

This was a six-day project of mine I called “lunchbreak animations”, the idea being to make a quick animation each day of the week. In the end I worked longer than your typical lunchbreaks, around 30mins-2hrs on each one, and there’s a lot to be improved upon. But as someone still fresh-faced to animation I’m happy with how they turned out!

I fell in love with this adorable character after playing some of the co-op game Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker, he reduces a grown man to squeals whenever Toad does something ridiculously cute 😂

== Share links ==

Clapping: Gfycat, Imgur

Scared: Gfycat, Imgur

Walking: Gfycat, Imgur

Joy: Gfycat, Imgur

Angry: Gfycat, Imgur

Swaying: Gfycat, Imgur

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Supa Hot Life is Strange

Check it out in high quality: https://gfycat.com/dependentrigidbluebottlejellyfish

This was a ton of fun to make! I hand-animated each character in Blender and rendered it in Cycles. You can check out a side-by-side comparison with the original here, as well as a behind-the-scenes look here.

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Bad Apple

No animals were harmed in the making of this art, but some fruit and veg certainly was.

I don't usually play with my food, but I had this idea for a stupid play on the phrase, and I had to do it... I really enjoyed creating the little pieces, sticking them on the apple/onion and posing the scene!

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Chloe and Rachel - Christmas

I had a lot of fun decorating Rachel’s bedroom to be Christmas-themed! Getting the Santa gown to work was harder than expected but I think it was worth it.

Thanks to Mike-Kossi for sharing a Blender scene of Rachel’s room!

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Chloe and Rachel - Line Art

Finished my line art drawings of Chloe and Rachel! They may look basic enough, but it took me a long time to get the form just right and capture their distinctive features in a simplistic style.

Here, have some cheesy product placement photos of it being printed, because this doesn’t really work as a wallpaper

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Chloe and Rachel - Sea View

The Nik Collection for Photoshop was a lifesaver in making this look much better than it originally rendered in Blender.

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Chloe and Rachel - Halloween

It was fun face painting these great characters for this fan art!

Grab a wallpaper version here

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Digital Freedom

This idea popped into my head and I tried to recreate it as best as I could, using a combination of hacky Blender techniques.

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Hashiwokakero / Bridges

After playing this puzzle game, I noticed that the pattern was kinda aesthetically pleasing. So I made it into a thing.

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Silly Sausage

Simple vector graphic, inspired by a little tutorial in the Binding of Isaac game.

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Skull Bass

My first artwork ready for printing!

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