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 comp@ipisoft.com.
Please provide brief description which motions were captured with iPi Mocap.
I tried one night challenge to mocap how can I do fastest and best animation. And suppressing even my so small and not ideal for capture room its success. I used 2 Xbox 360 Kinect and 3 ps move to mocap. Also used vocaloid 5 and Hatsune Miku English v4 base. I made in very small room and with lots of colorful items in it. And with 4 cat ( they sometimes join my set ). Mocaped charters are : Hatsune Miku and Hachune Miku ( Mini Miku ) I used Radeon VII and its super-fast render to tracking progress. It impressed that speed.
Lyrics of song:
I guess you wondering how to mocap Now listen carefully First select your cams or sensors and get them Than get tripods for your each cams or sensors to use Get your extinction cables If you want more correction get your motion controllers Be sure got Bluetooth place your cams or sensors as ipi wiki shown Get your iPi Recorder If you using Kinect be sure correct Kinect S D K installed Open iPi Recorder and start to connect all Before record lets calibrate our setup First evaluate background without actors Than If you using Kinect get ready your cardboard or Glowing Marker Or using P S three eye cams get ready your Glowing Marker And don’t forget to set your cams to blue dot also set your Calibration Mode too Now you are ready to press recording If you doing Glowing Marker method Draw your mocap area with your Marker like this If you doing cardboard method do like this ------------------------------------- Now after calibration Hit the recording button again Do your T pose And act! After record import clip to iPi MOCAP STUDIO than start to tracking progress If you got motion controllers don’t forget apply their data after tracking progress Than start cleaning progress First run Refine Than run Jitter Removal Lastly choose Trajectory Filtering level Import your model Set your bones of your model Select a format what you need than export your animation! And you done. Its that easy!
-I used the only Kinect from Xbox 360 console and key animations. Sometimes I had to edit mocap animation myself in Source Filmmaker because I added for example some weapon in somebody's hands and that weapon went through textures so I had to move those hands quite back. (Like Wrench in Engineer's hand in behind the scenes video) -I animated this video for 115 hours of pure animation. I tried to create easy but excellent story with great animation. -There are 132 cuts; 249 sounds; 84 created cameras; 55 models; 8 particle effects.
All main characters are recorded on 3 ps eye + ps move cameras for head tracking. Tracking was done in IpiSoft Studio 4. Most of the characters were recorded on one Kinect 360.Tracking was done in IpiSoft Studio 2. I was very impressed with the result of tracking the head without ps move in the old version. All additions to head movements are recorded in the second version.
IpiSoft Studio 4 + 3x ps eye + ps move (Mars, Slark, Kunnka, Undying, Sniper, dancing at the end of the creep, a creep peeking out over Kunnka)
IpiSoft Studio 2 + kinect 360 (Juggernaut, Dark Willow and the remaining)
Hello, we created a video in the SFM where 90% of the animation is done in iPi software.
Description from the author:
In creating the first series, we used 2 kinect v1 aka 360. But we were not happy with the result of their work and therefore purchased 6 PS3 Eye cameras. We are very pleased with the result of their work and you can see them in action in the second series of our mini-series and in our backstage video. Thanks for the awesome magic from iPi ! And for the opportunity to participate in the competition!
French description from the author: Pour cette nouvelle démo de motion capture nous avons décidé de faire quelque chose d’originale ! Cette fois nous avons fait une animation de monter d'escalier. C'est aussi la première fois que nous essayons le Kinect 2 avec les logiciels ipi soft.
English description from the author: For this new motion capture demo we decided to do something original! This time we made an animation of climbing stairs. It's also the first time that we have tested the Kinect 2 with ipi software.
We made all characters animations with your software (already bought 3 months subscription) but we are small team and it would be amazing to win 1 year subscription to make animations better :)
On the end of video we also show some of our mocap Records :)
All character animation (excluding head tracking) was done with Ipisoft, the main driving force behind this animation, using a 4 PlayStation eye setup in my garage.
We decided to award a main prize and a special prize once again. And the winners are...
Frantisek Harcar with the iPiSoft video (the Pro license) and David Fu with the VROID Kpop Animated Dance ... (the Basic license).
Our congratulations!
The main prize:
Description from the author:
This animation was created using iPiSoft MOCAP with two Kinect for xbox 360 in Blender 2.82. 90% of the animations are MOCAP (Pi + Humanoid). iPiSoft is a super animated tool.
The special prize:
Description from the author:
Full dance was mocaped using 6 Playstation Eyes in a 2.5m by 3m space. Hands were keyframed in Mocap Studio. Rendered in Autodesk Maya. This project was inspired and dedicated to the late Monty Oum, who inspired me in do animation. This video is a recreation of his original dance choreography, which was challenging for me to learn as a non-dancer :D.