Blender3D

An update to my previous HSV tutorial. This tutorial shows how to adjust the Hue, Saturation and Value of an image to improve a photo and make it look like it was shot at a different time of the day. I also make a minor use of the Curves node.

In Blender, you can build up a library of Actions, Poses, and IK Target motion based on real-world motion capture sessions. These session files are freely available and cover hundreds of everyday motion. Use these libraries to study and augment your hand-animation skills, or use directly to animate your character.

Two main scripts demonstrated: "c3d import" and "bake constraints", and the 2.46 Pose Library feature. This video goes with the MoCap tutorial at wiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Motion_Capture

HD 1280x720p FFMPEG Q100 10fps Video tab: H.264 preset AVI Format 4kbps, GOP (keyframe) 30, and H.264 Codec

Using the T-rig produced by the Bake Constraints script, we load up Actions from our MoCap library. We use poses from the MoCap Action to make our own hand-posed Actions. Finally, using the NLA we blend all the Actions together into our final animation.

Since the Actions are bone-specific, we can re-target the armature (scale and edit) to fit any skin, and orient it (location, rotation) to fit into any scene. This video goes with the MoCap tutorial at wiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Motion_Capture

Result of importing CMU MoCap file 01_13.c3d

Using a geometric shape to mask out a portion of one video, so that you can substitute in a different video on top of it. Masks are used for many puposes, to either mask out what you do NOT want to be in the video, or to select a region of a video that you want to process or combine with other video. Since masks can move and change shape, you can have the mask track the video it is masking.