What you mean good old days I can rember them like well a few years back
Roughnecks was good as was reboot, the MoCap CG was ok and things ahve moved on a bit now
FilmBox bye Kaydara was the main tool used which is now part of MAYA for you CGI nuts out there.
The blend tools a very good for IK rigs.
Are the good old days when Mocap was not all done thow MachMoving. If any of you like the Idaer of making your
Own CGI show a very cheap way to do the CG is to ues the new tools in realViz.
This is how to do the MoCap
1 take you mate and put him in a body suit.
2 get drunk
3 Stick Ping pong balls on the points of his body that will drive your
IK chain.
3 get hold of some chap DV cams I use JCVs 240's at $300 a time (you can like ILM use HDTV cams at $12k a pop)
4 to 12 will do it.
4 Set them up so you they can see as many ping pong balls each as they can
5: If you need to sink the frames place a number of flashing ELDS in the frame or on your mate (which is more fun as your drunk)
6 Film him doing the animation you need.
7 feed footage into RealViz Motion capter tools
8 Muck about trying to get the F curves out with a resolve that is a bugger to get with all the mition blur and low rez images.
9: Feed them into Maya, taking out the bad data and link it to you IK rig
10 Render out as longform.
11 colect Emmy
o well thats the plain
Or you could just 2d the hold thing and use real animatars who get the timeing right
I work with A nice chap called Mike whos with me and sme others did Walking with Dinos
Once apon a time we where going to mocap Eliphonts.
Mike did a nice peace on Mocap which was being done around the time of your TV shows
http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n2/columns/milne.html
