Motion and retarget it to the Daz genesis proxy rig in 3DXchange and export to BVH. I then use Iclone’s real time avatars to easily & quickly create my character I use iclone Pro which has built in retargeting templatesįor MAX biped, Maya Human IK & Daz Genesis, in its 3DXchange app. (you can do it with an FK layer, but it can be a bit tedious).” Then comes the lack of FK/IK standard rig to So if your mocap isn’t matching perfectly to your rig Originally Posted by EricM:“C4D’s NLE is pretty good, but the BIGGEST letdown for mocap in C4D, is retargeting. I wonder if Cactus Dan’s tools had a more functional mocap suite built in… but with the situation as it is, it may be a long time before it becomes functional and available again anyway, so a bespoke and trimmed solution could be unavoidable. Need to watch some documentation on this. From the very setout, I see logical problems that would make mocap difficult (like interactions with a static environment). I may need to have a look at the retargeting issues and program my way around it if possible. I have not yet made any tests, so I wouldn’t be able to judge the quality of C4D’s tools… but it sounds like there is an awful lot of other tools involved. That is very interesting, it sounds precisely like the setup I would like to use in the future (mocap under Cinema with a simple suit). Ideally, we’d have something like Ikinema Action in C4D, which is like a more flexible (and non Autodesk) alternative to Motionbuilder and Maya’s HumanIK : retargeting, FK/IK blending and autocleaning all in one. Then comes the lack of FK/IK standard rig to adjust the mocap in IK once imported (you can do it with an FK layer, but it can be a bit tedious). So if your mocap isn’t matching perfectly to your rig (= very often), then you’re screwed. I would be completely unable to produce a minute of keyframe animation in a day or two, and yet that’s what I can do now.Ĭ4D’s NLE is pretty good, but the BIGGEST letdown for mocap in C4D, is retargeting. I use a combination of home-made motion capture (neuron mocap suit) + canned or procedural mocap (mixamo, iclone, etc…) for individual characters, and for crowd shots, I use An(i)ma.

Because it’s much easier and faster (when having the right tools) than traditional keyframing. Among other things, I do previz stuff with C4D, and only do character animation… through mocap.

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