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Destination Calabria Dance Animation - Based off the risque music video.

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Dance animation is based off the Destination Calabria music video. I only animated the 1st third of the song. Animating without mocap is a lot of work, but I figured it out eventually. This was animated in blender and then converted to BVH in DAZ...

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[JC318]

Wow, this was a great animation already! Out of curiosity, have you tried experimenting with the plugin timeline for animation? I haven't dealt with mocap using it, but it makes normal animation a lot easier imo.

 

[esthr]

Wow, this was a great animation already! Out of curiosity, have you tried experimenting with the plugin timeline for animation? I haven't dealt with mocap using it, but it makes normal animation a lot easier imo.

Thanks. I know about Timeline, but Blender is a native animation tool with a ton of features + undo support. Maybe I would use Timeline if it had a similar rig and undo support, and I'd also need a visualization of the audio track (to line up the beats). The downsides of Blender are that some of the animation quality was lost converting between the different skeletons / BVH / DAZ, though, since my original animation was done on a IK-rigged Rigify skeleton, which was mapped onto a DAZ FK-only skeleton, and then blender's BVH exporter is in the wrong format for virtamate, so I had to export to DAZ, then export from DAZ to BVH. Not to mention, figuring out that conversion process (blender -> DAZ -> virtamate) was quite complicated