Roman Soldier - Motion Capture University Module Project

Dilkesy

Hey guys, this is my first ever post on PolyCount so bare with me. This thread is going to be myself showing my progress as a work on my university Module. The module is Optical Motion Capture and requires me to make 5 different animations which have to include a run cycle and a stand idle.

As you can probably figure out from the title I have chosen a Spartan as my custom character. The reason i choose this character is because I want to try and incorporate a shield into my animations as well as a spear. This is of course more of a challenge for me but I like a challenge.

So In this thread I am going to upload: Storyboards, motion lists and of course screenshots as i progress through the module.

Some influences I am going to look at are Pantheon from League of Legends and also watch the film "300" (not complaining) and see some of their moves and perhaps adapt them into my animations.




My initial 5 animations are: Run Cycle, Stand Idle, Block, Lunge attack and an recall animation such as in MOBA games.

I hope you have enjoyed this initial post and look forward to the feedback.

Dilkesy

Aga22

well if you want to make a roman soldier, why do you use Spartans as reference?

Dilkesy

Aga22 wrote: »

well if you want to make a roman soldier, why do you use Spartans as reference?

Well I plan to create a Hoplite however i figured not everyone would know what one is so i just said roman soldier

jfeez

Looking forward to seeing the mocap, spent ages when i was at uni last year researching mocap so ill be following this thread =D. Im guessing your planning on making some props for the spear and shield as well. With the animations that are not run/idle, id make them as dynamic as possible, doing a simple lunge animation where the character just moves and stabs forward does not take that long to hand animate to as good quality in reality so there is not a reason to mocap it, if the attacks are more like sequences, for example, lunge/shield bash (so the person being attacked is knocked down) then a stab while he is down, that would be considerably cooler and from my experience you would get alot more out of it =D Look up spartacus (tv show not the film) that has some awesome cinematic fight scenes like 300 does. Gl man

Also if possible change your title to roman hoplite/solider so people dont get confused.