June 2022. Reallusion Character Creator Avatar creation demonstration for Female Eye Film Festival: Women in Virtual Production panel....

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...

This is the photorealistic reference footage that will be recreated in 3D Animation software. I tried to speak as clearly and slowly as...

After taking the sample photorealistic footage above to "recreate" in the 3D Animation software, it was time to get started on character...

Much like the other base assets provided with Character Creator, clothing options are severely LIMITED. There are a few dresses, a few...

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the process of set design. Coming off a fairly tedious and contentious relationship with...

Before delving into iClone's animation lip-sync/facial mocap features, I wanted to play around with some other publicly accessible...

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...

Arguably one of the most difficult steps in the 3D animation pipeline (especially as a newcomer) to facial and lipsync animation. Unlike...

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...

As I presumed, putting both animation features together was not as easy as plugging in the facial mocap onto my now keyframed avatar and...

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...

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)....