Thanks to all contestants for their brilliant works!
This time we have two winners.
Dirk Erdmann & Robert Schnüll with their work "Numb3r" are awarded the main prize - 1 year subscription to iPi Studio Pro. This work contains no so much mocap content, but its overall quality is really impressive, and accompanying "Behind the Scenes" is very creative.
Dionisii Vergasov and his work "Last Survivor" is awarded the special prize - 1 year subscription to iPi Studio Basic. The work may look not so polished, but it contains a lot of mocap animations, some of them include very complex motions. iPi Soft's team is really excited that not only established animation studios, but also mocap enthusiasts in the beginning of their career are able to provide winning entries!
Congratulations!
The main prize:
Description from the author:
We are Robert and Dirk from Germany. As the team behind UniversVFX, we made a Sci-Fi short film about a society, in which the implementation of humanoid robot is tested. You could imagine that it is set about 10 years before Will Smith is fighting the robots in iRobot.
To get the animations for the created robot that we wanted we decided very early to do it using motion capture. Since our budget was absolute nothing we looked around for affordable or free solutions. Using the trial version of iPi Studio and two borrowed Microsoft Kinect cameras, we had our own, diy motion capture studio. We loved the way we were able to do quick performances and implementing it in Cinema 4D, which we used to animate and render the robot. Using this software and to be able to use the new kinect camera or a bunch of them seems to be the ideal solution for starting, low-budget filmmakers and 3D- artist.
Behind The Scenes:
The special prize:
Description from the author:
More than 90% of the motion this time is captured with iPi Soft.
For motion capture I used iPi Basic with 6 Sony PS3 Eye cameras and 3 PS Move Controllers.