I hope that, this time around, the facial MOCAP in the new Cartoon Animator can be accomplished without $500 to $1,000 worth of third-party add-ons. (Reallusion has an unfortunate habit of being very vague of how much extra you will need to spend to get MOCAP running in their products.)

http://bvhacker.com/

Happy IC :laugh:


My YouTube channel.

I couldn't find a download site for that program?

I can hardly wait to get the web-cam version rolling. I mean... simple things like doing a wave... you can puppet it... but how do you know the right frame movement? If I made a video of me waving... scaled it and put it in as a background... I could align the character over it... then delete the video. But being able to just go to that point in the video and wave... MUCH easier.

Tick Tock... come on folks... push that revision!
(At least I figured how to rig a very complex character [IMO] and it worked correctly... so I'm making progress.)


Jerry



Askjerry... everyone else does.

Thanks Peter.

Hi Jude... Yes, iPhone Live Face can be used with Morph based heads.


                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

Hello guys
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to use the iPhone features with a "morph" head?
Thanks in advance
Jude

Facial mocap aside, you can do body mocap using any means such as xbox kinect, theres several opensource packages out there, as well as some paid ones or hacked methods using those $3 playstation eye cameras. As long as you can get the VBH output you should be able to convert it to something compatible with CTA's G2 characters (using 3dxchange as part of the pipeline, VBHacker is free and can be used for re targeting and stuff like that if needed)

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It appears I just need to wait a bit longer... when I upgraded to CTA 3 it made me eligible for the new Cartoon Animator... and I just got this in email...

Cartoon Animator 4 WOW Features for Speed Production                                                                                                                                                                                                This year, Reallusion will launch Cartoon Animator 4 (CTA 4), the re-branded CrazyTalk Animator. With Smart IK and the 360 Head Creator, you can easily turn a 2D art into a 3D animation. Facial mocap using regular webcam makes your animation process even easier and is perfect for live shows on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook live.

So it looks like I'll have the ability by next month.
Jerry
                                       

Askjerry... everyone else does.