Woah, woah woah!! That is amazing!! Could you do something like that with your Neytiri model?

Yeah, just have to think of a nice pose but ill see what i can do :)

In the meanwhile ive been busy with preparations for the short animation i got planned. Just as building Ney and Jake was an experiment so is this.
With realistic humanoid characters its hard to animate them properly.
For me anyway :) So i'm planning to use all the help i can get.

Next to filming myself as reference i stumbled upon motion capture software using the kinect camera, how awesome is that :D
Hopefully the quality it good enough to get some interesting data i can use as reference. Got to the store for a kinect set and so far its looking great i'm pretty positive.
Software is actually made by a fellow dutchman how about that :P
His page can be found here: Rants about Mocap, MoBu, Maya and coding

Below a screenshot of the software tracking me :P

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F...ct_mocap01.jpg

:D This is so exciting :xD: Nice blog there too, very informative. Best of luck with everything :)

Wow this is looking very high tech. :) The motion capture technology could help you make some interesting reference pics for your models.

I am still in awe over this ma tsmukan!! JAKE looks SOOOO AMAZING but I think you know that already from my comments on DA! LOL! :love2:;):rolleyes:

Looking forward to seeing something with the motion capture :)

Motion capture >_>

Yes thats what i hope to get out of it. Sofar its awesome to mess with but i have doubts i can get it to the quality i need for proper referencing.
Might go back to filming 2D as reference.
Anyway i started preparations for the animation (setting up the scenes to make an animated storyboard).
Did some cleaning up and sorting things out to make sure everything is going well when its all in one scene.
A quick render to see if all the dynamics are holding up during a fast motion. They didnt :( but after some tweaking things are starting to look alot better again :D Getting close.
Oh and i increased the constrast of the skin a little, believe that was mentioned here?

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ox-d4hw1wb.jpg

:O look awesome!!! the skin looks perfect now, nothing more i can say. excellent job and i look forward to seeing the animation :)

Jake 3D WIP
 

I'm just coming across this thread for the first time, you're doing a great job, this is really awesome, can't wait to see more! :)

That is such a natural pic. :) It looks like it could easily be in the movie.

This

and this :)

I think her face looks a little too big in that one.

And both of their teeth are too visible .. very bright.

Overall I think their faces themselves look just a hair too "round", almost a little cartoony, but not really.


Besides that, it looks great! Has LSE or WETA called and offered you a job yet?

- Mikko

Awesomeness. Pandora in the background and this will give me Avatarblues.

:love:

This is amazing. One of the best yet :)