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HIKE (2021)
Writer/Director/Actor/Animator/Editor: Josh Lange
Time on project: August-September 2021

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Week Four: August 22nd-28th
Classes/Tasks: Previs, LiveLink, Motion Capture, Audio, Bugfixing

This was a heavy week of previs and learning how to bugfix. I have to credit my instructors with all their help. Handling sound effects way over in Boston was my other Vancouver Film School roommate and director of The Devil Show, John Thordarson.  He helped open up his artlist.io account to me, so I found two great tracks for the music as well.

On the performance side, I captured all the facial mocap for me and the girls in LiveLink, via iPhone. This was a lot of fun, although it took a lot of takes and careful direction to land the right performance.

On Friday, I set up for a mocap shoot in order to avoid painstakingly keyframing my characters as much as possible (little did I know how much polish I would need to do later). It took a lot of remote troubleshooting with some MPC teammates and the clutch Fellowship TA Gabriella Krousaniotakis to get the equipment to work right, but it was exhilarating to see it  finally working.

Once I had the kids try on the suit, we had a lot of laughs at the funny results we got with the scale differences:

Mocap captured from my youngest, applied to the MVN actor. Lots of chuckles with this.

The shoot finished after midnight. Here is a little vlog I did explaining what it felt like to be this far in the Fellowship:

Motion Capture Clips

Here is how the clips progressed in Week 5:

Mocap of me on the MVN puppet in Unreal.

Translated to the Unreal actor.

Mocap applied to Metahumans and polished.