Introduction

[LeeCreative]

Hello to the artists and participants of this community!

I have to say, I am rather impressed by what I have seen achieved here. You all are very inspiring to me! Bringing characters to life has always been a passion of mine, and I can't believe I have never heard of this platform until recently. To test my skills, I made a simple facial animation. I hope you all like it

FacialAnimation_Demo.mp4

drive.google.com

Unfortunately I can't capture video on my computer itself while running VaM without bad stutters, so I had to use my phone (not enough memory).

Big thanks to all the people who made the tools! I will properly credit everyone in future posts after I take this platform in a little more ?

Appearance is an edited version of SuperSamoth's Brunehilde

I am open to collaboration should anyone have fun ideas!
Be safe and have fun.

 

[Saint66]

Wow! That was a good short one! And welcome aboard

Just in case you are doing more of them: I am always interested to have such things ready for reusability in scenes.

Most creators are doing amazing stuff here, but whats a bit lacking imho are just such small snippets like your face animation. Or short character animation templates with everyday movements (sit down, raise arms, yawn, you know what I mean).

 

[MacGruber]

Capturing video shouldn't cost that much resources. Make sure you use hardware coding on your graphics card (which has a chip just for that) and not your CPU. E.g. use NVENC for Nvidia cards, AMD has something similar.

Just wrote the same in this thread:

Best option for video screen capture on desktop?

What screen capture software is good for recording videos of VaM scenes in desktop mode? Something that can do 4K in the MP4 format would be nice. I realize there is a video recorder plugin here but I'd prefer something where I can just hit record and when I hit stop I have an MP4 file ready to...

hub.virtamate.com

 

[LeeCreative]

Wow! That was a good short one! And welcome aboard

Just in case you are doing more of them: I am always interested to have such things ready for reusability in scenes.

Most creators are doing amazing stuff here, but what's a bit lacking imho are just such small snippets like your face animation. Or short character animation templates with everyday movements (sit down, raise arms, yawn, you know what I mean).

I am open to ideas! Understandably, good facial animations take time, which is why motion capture and plugins that shortcut are so popular. I am just REALLY into seeing the subtle expressions in people that I don't think any plugin can really capture well.
I would like to get into lipsync and storytelling to be honest. AS an animator from Maya tho,it is rather difficult not having functionality I am used to.

https://gyazo.com/2ce3a30c065e73b275812a6149de6ba3 This is something I did as a test for Virtual Harem 34 (Check 'im out if you haven't!). I am unsure if it will be used or not, so I figured I would share.

 

[LeeCreative]

Capturing video shouldn't cost that much resources. Make sure you use hardware coding on your graphics card (which has a chip just for that) and not your CPU. E.g. use NVENC for Nvidia cards, AMD has something similar.

Just wrote the same in this thread:

Best option for video screen capture on desktop?

What screen capture software is good for recording videos of VaM scenes in desktop mode? Something that can do 4K in the MP4 format would be nice. I realize there is a video recorder plugin here but I'd prefer something where I can just hit record and when I hit stop I have an MP4 file ready to...

hub.virtamate.com

Thank you!

 

[SlimerJSpud]

Have you seen this? This appears to be the best video render option for Vam, IMO:

Video Renderer for 3D VR180, VR360 and Flat 2D & Audio + BVH Animation Recorder - Plugins -

This plugin renders VR180, VR360 and traditional 2D videos with audio and VR/panorama images inside Virt-A-Mate in stereoscopic 3D and monoscopic view. You can render at very high levels of resolution, quality and frame rate that would be...

hub.virtamate.com

 

[LeeCreative]

Have you seen this? This appears to be the best video render option for Vam, IMO:

Video Renderer for 3D VR180, VR360 and Flat 2D & Audio + BVH Animation Recorder - Plugins -

This plugin renders VR180, VR360 and traditional 2D videos with audio and VR/panorama images inside Virt-A-Mate in stereoscopic 3D and monoscopic view. You can render at very high levels of resolution, quality and frame rate that would be...

hub.virtamate.com

This is interesting! Especially the BVH export part... Thanks!