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Don't Miss the Chance to Win an iPi Mocap Studio Pro Year Subscription!

To enter, contestants need to produce an original 3D animation using a trial version or a full version of the iPi Soft Motion Capture software, and send a link to the animated video to [email protected].

Please provide brief description which motions were captured with iPi Mocap.

Read the complete competition terms and conditions.

 

Apr-Jun Contest Entries - George Egriselashvili

Description from the author:

My name is George Egriselashvili, I'm Sci-fi writer & 3D animator. I have created several CGI videos using trial version of iPi Soft. This is full-length sci-fi movie "Dragons of Winter", made with mocap from dual Kinect V2 & your software. Practically every animation here was done using mocap, especially the acting part. 

 

Here's a small "Behind The Scenes" video of how my process of motion capture is working. This is an addition to my entry with "Dragons of Winter" movie.

Behind The Scenes:

 

Jan-Mar Contest Entries - And the Winner Is...

Our congratulations to Emanuele Siboni! Very nice piece of art!

The Winnging Entry:

 

Description from the author:

The animation is made 100% with motion capture. I used two Xbox Kinect cameras with the trial version of the iPiSoft Motion Capture Studio. The experience with iPisoft software was really satisfying, in fact there was no need to correct the animation with any additional 3D software, since it was already very realistic. I imported the mocap (fbx) output files in "Unity3D", where I set up the various 3D elements: character/dancer, environment, shading and dynamic lighting.  Using a  built-in plugin I was able to render the animation with different camera positions and movements. I edited the rendered files with the music, using "Kdenlive" video editing software.

 

The video is a "proof of concept" for a dance-simulation video game I am developing.

Behind The Scenes:

 

Jan-Mar Contest Entries - JWAN

Description from the author:

I feel that my animation skills are still not at a professional level, so I recreated the Squid Game trailer as a practice project.

For motion capture, I used a Kinect 2, and the editing was done in Premiere Pro and After Effects

Jan-Mar Contest Entries - Guido Flecken

Description from the author:

All movements were recorded with two “Xbox One Kinect” sensors. I used a “Playstation move controller” to record head movements. The face of Kong was animated in "Moho" and applied as a texture. The animation was rendered using “Blender”. Gruß, Guido Flecken.

Jan-Mar Contest Entries - Emanuele Siboni

Description from the author:

The animation is made 100% with motion capture. I used two Xbox Kinect cameras with the trial version of the iPiSoft Motion Capture Studio. The experience with iPisoft software was really satisfying, in fact there was no need to correct the animation with any additional 3D software, since it was already very realistic. I imported the mocap (fbx) output files in "Unity3D", where I set up the various 3D elements: character/dancer, environment, shading and dynamic lighting.  Using a  built-in plugin I was able to render the animation with different camera positions and movements. I edited the rendered files with the music, using "Kdenlive" video editing software.

 

The video is a "proof of concept" for a dance-simulation video game I am developing.

Behind The Scenes:

 

Apr-Jun Contest Entries - And The Winner Is...

Our congratulations to Raul Ruiz! Brilliant work and very interesting mocap.

Winning entry:

Description from the author:

My name is Raul Raul, I'm excited to submit my entry for the iPiSoft Motion Capture Contest for the second time. Enclosed are links to videos on how the software was used to develop an animated series of videos named "The Cartographers", an animated series about a group of robots trying to chart the famous creepy pasta "The Backrooms".

Behind The Scenes:

 

 

Apr-Jun Contest Entries - Diego Mis

 

Description from the Author:

The animation is 90% done with motion capture. I used the rigify and NLA features from blender in order to be able to modify the existing animations and get around limitations. Since I have an express license I can only use one depth sensor. I combined some animation in blender and the results were better than expected, IPISoft Studio provides pretty good results with just one sensor.

Behind the Scenes:

 

Apr-Jun Contest Entries - Bálint Csapó

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Description from the Author:

About 90% of all moving characters were recorded using the iPi Recorder and exported with the iPi Mocap Studio.
As always, a small number of improvements to the raw mocap files have been made inside Source Filmmaker, such as head and finger posing or adjusting a character's hand position to fit interactions with various objects better.
Multiple other software were used for the making of this film, such as:
- Blender, for porting and texturing a few key 3D objects
- Serious Editor, to access the majority of the character models
- Vegas Pro, for the editing of the movie.

Begind the Scenes:

 

Apr-Jun Contest Entries - Raul Ruiz

Description from the author:

My name is Raul Raul, I'm excited to submit my entry for the iPiSoft Motion Capture Contest for the second time. Enclosed are links to videos on how the software was used to develop an animated series of videos named "The Cartographers", an animated series about a group of robots trying to chart the famous creepy pasta "The Backrooms".

Behind The Scenes:

 

 

Jan-Mar Contest Entries - And the Winner Is...

Our congratulations to Guido Flecken! Really nice and realistic full-body mocap.

Winning entry:

Description from the author:

All movements were recorded with two “Xbox One Kinect” sensors. I used a “Playstation move controller” to record head movements. The donkey's face was animated in "Moho" and applied as a texture. The animation was rendered using “Blender”.