#exploration 2

THE FINAL ANIMATION OF OUR EXPLORATION

THOUGHTS ARE HERE!!

It was a very interesting and quite funny project to do. From the very beginning of recreating Godzilla movements to rigging the model and trying to recreate a smal town for it to destroy.

Certainly the differences in human anatomy compared to dinozaur one were the first obstacle that we needed to address and work it out. Sometimes data collected from motion capture would completely break the bones of our model making it veeeeery creepy.

Also what happened during the process of capturing was getting my own leg twisted to other direction. All the data just misunderstood the position of my ankle, twisting my whole leg painfully (only virtually though) to the backside. That was something Alexi needed to fix on each animation but we got it work out.

At the end I am very happy of the result we got. Our godzilla looks terrific in my opinion and seeing her movements withing the space makes me laugh. There is a lot to discover in motion capture and I am pretty sure we could go a little step further than what we did.

I wish we could get more time to fix the final animation capture, put some nicer textures and shaders in the scene. Make it more aesthetically pleasing to look at and maybe cooler. Just slightly cooler.

What else... hmm...

This is what happens to you motion-capture data when the files you save are not rendered properly and data are read by another program in a very, very, very wrong way.

However what is interesting is the way even though the model is completely horrifying it still shows through the human motions anyway.

Currently we are on the stage were we need to attach our motion capture data to the actual skeleton of the actual model of Godzilla.

Jade Wu and Alexi Dubryk were working hard on rigging, skinning and just refining the models and bases. So far everything is going not that smoothly as we would want to but we are moving forward.

We have few problems and concerns that needs to be figured out before final submission.

1) Right leg is bend on a VERY unrealistic angle which makes Godzilla look like it had a very bad injury in the past and bones just stopped existing in her ankle after that.

HOW WE WILL TRY TO SOLVE IT? - Re-model the leg so it doesn’t bend like crazy.

2) As a Godzilla actor producing motion capture data I was crouching most of the time in our shoots trying to immitate the natural movement of typical dinosaur that has completely different anatomy than me. Our initial model since the very beginning had already “crouched” legs, thus in our animation Godzilla most of the time is sniffing the floor because IT’S DOUBLE CROUCHING.