Kidz Korner Studio

12/06/2022

Here are the other cutscenes we have worked on for Bungie

Season of the Plunder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDYTGKOQCbE

Season of the Haunted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO0wBuchgsQ

Season of the Haunted end scene (my favorite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cruSbD18Oo

Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted Ending Cutscene With Crow, Caiatl, Zavala, Eris Morn - Calus Has Joined The Witness & Saying Goodbye | "Catharsis" Final Sto...

12/06/2022

Since January, we've been providing facial mocap services to Bungie, which has been loads of fun, here's the latest...

Well, it's out! Bungie's Season of the Seraph intro scene.

https://lnkd.in/gXTRXx-X

Was a lot of fun being the facial mocap provider/sup for this one as part of the mocap capture team then processing/retargeting the facial data for the Bungie Cinematics team

Congrats to everyone involved!

Destiny 2 Season of the Seraph - New Opening Cutscenes / Ana Bray, Rasputin & Osiris. Just a quick video showing the new cutscenes when you log into Destiny...

03/11/2022

tutorial up, how to pair Rokoko (or any glove for that matter) with body data (from any system) in Motionbuilder

https://vimeo.com/686946350

Little tutorial on how to pair Rokoko glove capture with body data (from another system, optical or inertial) in Motionbuilder. Will work with other gloves as well.

03/09/2022

A few weeks ago, Rokoko released the beta version of their new Rokoko Studio application, with a corresponding firmware update for their legacy suits and Smartgloves. (which flew entirely under the radar)

Whatever you might think of the suit itself (I personally like it and find it useful), their smartglove is an entirely different matter. This new beta version and firmware for existing glove hardware really improved the quality and range of the gloves.

Right now, you can only export fbx to something like motionbuilder (where you can pair it easily with body data, and I'll have a tutorial up in a bit on how to do that), as their plugins are all being worked on still, (it is a beta after all). I'm looking forward to seeing what their final full release will look like.

Good job Rokoko!

02/04/2022

Last of my series of tutorials/walkthroughs uploaded to my vimeo page, this time concentrating on a "production" workflow, where I bring in several videos from the same project, track, retarget and export to UE

You can find it and my other walkthroughs, test renders of RAW data in Maya and Unreal here:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9248316

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02/01/2022

Otro render en las pruebas para el tutorial de Facegood, esta vez junto con mocap del cuerpo. Mocap facial sin polish

https://vimeo.com/672420030

Another quick render of one of the shots in the tutorial I'm working on for FG, this time I added some of the body mocap I captured with Rokoko for this project.…

01/29/2022

Estoy trabajando en un tutorial de producción con Facegood, e hize este video como prueba. Me gustan los nuevos presets de iluminación para Metahuman, realmente ayudan muchísimo.

Animación sin polish

https://vimeo.com/671534027

tweaked the shapes a little bit as well as the character. Will start building the tutorial from here.

12/30/2021

Quick test of the latest version of FG, this time with an older Dxyz IR HMC that I have that used Optitrack Slim3u cameras, 640x480, 120 fps, raw

I could push some of the expressions more, but I think I'll leave it here as it is just a test.

Happy New Year to everyone!, stay safe out there.

Prueba rápida de la versión más reciente de Facegood, esta vez con un casco viejito de Dynamixyz que tengo, con cámaras Optitrack Slim3u infrarroja, 640x480, 120fps.

A lo mejor podria acentuar más algunas expresiones, pero lo voy a dejar aqui ya que es solo una prueba y me da flojera.

Feliz Año nuevo a todos!

https://vimeo.com/661262025

test of the latest version of FG, this time with an older Dxyz IR HMC I have, 640x480, 120fps, raw. I might need to push some expressions more, but this looks good…

12/14/2021

Hah! cracked that nut! Livelink from OptiTrack and Rokoko direct into UE. I wanted to separate the hands so that I could use my Rokoko gloves with my OptiTrack system using livelink. Took me a couple of days, but here's the result (showing what I used and how). I'm thinking this could be used with any mocap system

The trick is to use a blend node, so that just the hands from Rokoko are used, plus a few other tidbits (such as the metahuman t-pose from the Rokoko assets) so that the fingers aren't skewed.

P.S. Couldn't resist the title of the background music, "fluffing the duck" by Kevin MacCleod.

12/04/2021

Comparación de los guantes de captura de movimiento Stretchsense, Rokoko y OptiTrack/Manus

https://vimeo.com/653233409

En mi propio estudio utilizo los 3 para diferentes proyectos, aparte de ser el distribuidor de las 3 marcas para América Latina.

Cualquier pregunta que tengan, estoy a su disposición

Video comparativo de los guantes de captura de movimiento de Stretchsense, Rokoko y Manus

07/29/2021

This is my (truly!) final render of this personal project, using Dynamixyz Performer and their UE bridge. Raw facial data output from Performer, no UE cleaning. Head movement retargeted in Motionbuilder.

What started out as just a test, evolved into a more in-depth test of a potential workflow.

Even if Dynamixyz has ceased to be a commercial product, it is still in my opinion the best product for facial animation, and as with many in my situation, I have no intention of retooling to something else at the moment, so I will continue to use it for as long as I can.

There were several interesting issues, some caused by the unfinished tool and some others from UE itself. My conclusion? It is a viable tool, although there are a few more hoops to jump through. Established bridges like Maya integrate everything in one place so they are easier. Editing animation in sequencer, using the control board is.. frustrating, crashes, weird rendering bugs almost made me give up.. and you definitely want to use the highest framerate possible to track and retarget, 25 and 50fps are just not quite enough.

07/21/2021

Final version of my metahuman facial animation test with the Dynamixyz beta UE Bridge. All done in UE without using Maya or any other software. A real learning experience since there are tools not present in this bridge that are really helpful to nail performances, so this used all the tricks I know within Performer. Not perfect, but as far as I'm going to take this one.

07/14/2021

Another dxyz beta bridge test.. got the footage from the web, tried to get the general feel of the performance.. getting there

07/09/2021

Managed to clean up most of the twitches in the Performer track, looks a lot better, now to figure out the wet texture of the skin in UE

07/09/2021

WIP render of another test of Metahumans with the Dynamixyz Beta UE Bridge. This time I took a short clip from Blade Runner and brought this into UE. Since the beta bridge can't use the actual bones (and sadly, now never will), I had to retarget just the head into Motionbuilder then bring that in. There are a lot of minute twitches, caused by the rain in the actual footage, and I need to figure out how to make his skin wet.

06/30/2021

My final test of the beta UE bridge with Metahumans, corrected most of the issues although there's still more that I could do, but will leave it here for now. Next tests will be integrating this with body mocap and fingers.. stay tuned!

06/28/2021

Having fun with facial calisthenics, wanted to see if I could accurately capture puff cheek blow.. at 60fps then slowed down