Students will study:

- Advanced Motion Capture clean up techniques
- Export of Animations suitable for import into a games engine
- Creation of Animation Sets for a games engine
- Implementation of animations in Animation blend trees for a games engine
- Process for creation of hand animated walk cycles
- Process for creation of hand animated character animation

3 hour lecture/tutorial per week delivered as 8 weeks intensive Lecture/Tutorial followed 4 weeks of surgery sessions each semester.

Prior study of CE70008-4 Introduction to Animation & Motion Capture or equivalent.

Autodesk 3D Studio Max
Autodesk Motion Builder
UDK
Vicon User Manuals
RARE Optical Motion Capture Studio
Digital Academy

The Animators Survival Kit, Richard Williams, (2002) Faber & Faber, ISBN: 0571202284

The Animator's Motion Capture Guide: Organizing, Managing, and Editing, Matt Liverman (2004), Charles River Media, ISBN: 1584502916

The Animator's Workbook, Tony White (1988), White Watson-Guptill, ISBN: 0823002292
Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation 2nd Edition, Alberto Menache (2011), Morgan Kaufman, ISBN 9780123814968
MoCap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture, Midori Kitigawa (2008), Focal Press, ISBN: 9780240810003

A COURSEWORK weighted at 80%

Practical Videos showing development of a Motion Captured, Bipedal Character Animset for a Games Engine and a Hand Animated, Non-Bipedal Character Animset for a Games Engine

A COURSEWORK weighted at 20%

A Reflective, Technical Forum Thread showing the development of Animsets and concluding with a comparative discussion of the technical processes involved.