Introduction
This week, we used motion capture to record our background video footage for our mechanical arm animation.
Motion Capture
Nick helped me to record and edit my video footage using a motion capture suit. In the following weeks, I will use this video to animate my mechanical arm on top of it.
Mocap Suit
First, Nick provided us a green mocap suit and set up his equipment to start the recording.
Da Vinci Resolve
Then, he used Da Vinci Resolve to delete the green arm from the video footage. He exported the video file into frames, which we will import into our Maya file.
HDR Light
Finally, Nick captured with his HDR camera the environmental light, which we will also import into our Maya file.
Testing in Maya
I imported the frames of my video footage into Maya and placed the mechanical arm in front of them.
Even though I will have to scale the model and adjust the shape of it, I wanted to get a rough idea of how the video footage is going to look like.