Ryse: Son of Rome - Imaginarium Mocap
Here's a few videos featuring some of my mocap work on Ryse: Son of Rome, back in 2012 at The Imaginarium.
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3Lateral data driven face rigs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJr76sTTZBc&feature=share I've been following 3Lateral for a while now, the results they get from their digi-human face rigs are among the best in the business. I admire their data driven approach to face rigging, but more importantly how the data is interpreted in a way that strongly respects real world anatomy. Nice to see a solid FACs rig in action, interfaces like these are not the most comfortable for an animator to use, but a necessary evil for this level of realism!
God of War 3 - character tech
Nice in-depth look at the FACS, PSD and Mobu systems used on God of War 3.
Procedural game locomotion stuff
Couple of interesting takeaways from the Lumberyard SDK: "Ground alignment" for solving leg IK poses to ground slopes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/legacyreference/char-ik-leg-foot.html "ray scanning" or RayWorldIntersection (plus local culling for performance) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/userguide/physics-world-entities-raytracing.html Ikinema achieving something similar in Unreal Engine: x