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Jamie Hurcomb
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
Updated 2022: Reallusion Character Creator Avatar Demo
June 2022. Reallusion Character Creator Avatar creation demonstration for Female Eye Film Festival: Women in Virtual Production panel....
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 21, 2021
- 5 min
Introduction: Into the Realm of 3D Animated Documentary Filmmaking
My name is Jamie Hurcomb and I am a Masters student in Media Production at Ryerson University. When I chose to apply for this program in...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 20, 2021
- 1 min
Reference Footage to be Animated
This is the photorealistic reference footage that will be recreated in 3D Animation software. I tried to speak as clearly and slowly as...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 17, 2021
- 5 min
3D Animation Character Design (iClone 7 - Character Creator)
After taking the sample photorealistic footage above to "recreate" in the 3D Animation software, it was time to get started on character...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 15, 2021
- 5 min
3D Animation Clothing Design (aka my nightmare)
Much like the other base assets provided with Character Creator, clothing options are severely LIMITED. There are a few dresses, a few...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 5, 2021
- 6 min
3D Animation Set Design
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the process of set design. Coming off a fairly tedious and contentious relationship with...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 2, 2021
- 5 min
External Lip-sync/Animation Attempts
Before delving into iClone's animation lip-sync/facial mocap features, I wanted to play around with some other publicly accessible...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Feb 1, 2021
- 4 min
(Just for fun) DeepFake Output (Avatar/Photorealistic Footage)
This wasn't part of the plan. However, over the weekend I received an email stating that a DeepFake generator that I applied to beta test...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
Facial Animation in iClone - Text to Speech vs. FaceWare vs. LiveFace
Arguably one of the most difficult steps in the 3D animation pipeline (especially as a newcomer) to facial and lipsync animation. Unlike...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
iClone 7 Movement Animation - Key Framing
To recap, in my last post I decided that using a combination of face keying and Liveface facial mocap would be best suited to the lipsync...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Putting Facial Mocap and Key Frame Animation Together
As I presumed, putting both animation features together was not as easy as plugging in the facial mocap onto my now keyframed avatar and...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
Camera and Lighting functions in iClone 7
Perhaps it means I'm a bad filmmaker, but for me, camera angles and lighting setups were always more of an experimental process for me...
Jamie Hurcomb
- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Wrapping Up
Thus concludes my first foray into the wild world of 3D animation (well, I'll be back at it in a few weeks for my MRP, but alas)....
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