Hi,

Before using the latest posable Squetch rig I wanted to see how the latest rig performed so I threw together some stuff to put Sam through the paces. Sam performed admirably.

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/SquetchStressTest001.wmv

Cheers,
Rusty

Very nice Rusty! Sam is really strutting his stuff.

My only crit... too short!!! You've got me wanting to see more.

LOL! Nice, Rusty.

did you animate this or was it motion capture?
cool looking for sure!

Hi,

Thanks! I thought it came out looking cool too.

As stated, I 'threw' this together -- maybe 3 hours of work. I can't even imagine how long it would have taken to animate those moves. The run and the break dance/cart wheels were motion capture files. Just before the final render I just went through the AM library (which is hooked into my resource pool... see another ongoing thread here) and grabbed models and lights and 'threw' them it into the chor for... 'bling' effect!

The test refreshed my memory of BVH files and how to use and tweak them and, how to use the one lowly BVH tool I have (bvhacker). In fact the item that took the most time (an hour maybe) was tweaking the BVH files (in bvhacker, notebook and AM) so it looked right and didn't float off or along the ground.

Cheers,
Rusty