Ryse animaiton reel

DerDude

Just wanted to post some things i worked on Ryse, first time i worked with mocap (of course we also keyframed things)

https://vimeo.com/79846894

merc-ai

Looks great!

AndrewHelenek

Absolutly incredible! Amazing work! Really inspiring stuff! You have to have more somewhere! I'd love to see more!

neverwander

This is the first mo-cap I've seen in a game that I couldn't immediately tell was mo-cap. Usually it's pretty easy to pick out, something about how twitchy it is. You guys either had some really good actors, or did an amazing job cleaning it up. Is it also a higher frame rate than on most previous gen consoles? I know for UDK, we did 30 fps. Because I could see that being a huge help in smoothing out the animations.

DerDude

Thanks guys

Well, we had amazing actors, but also an amazing data. But of course you need to puzzle things together, because 1 execution took me like 2-3 hours just to retime them, make hold certain beats, adjust reactions/hits, etc. It´s like a small puzzle for itself, you should not just take for granted whatever was recorded. Then i applied better poses at certain key moments, fixed penetrations, etc. Later polish in Maya

DougClayton4231

Fantastic work Did you only use Maya? Or was there use of Motionbuilder or other software?

DerDude

I was working as much as possible in motionbuilder, because it´s always realtime and our maya rigs were awesome but slow, also storymode and other features are really powerful in the early stage. You also want to work careful, because it´s easy to mess up the data. So i tried to get the animaiton like 90% in mb, transfer to maya, fix issues in maya, animate 4 cameras and then polish as much as time allowed me.

DerDude

btw., 2-3 hours motionuilder work if it was complex, like 3 stuntmen with a lot of actions, with less complexity less time(work), if the performance was right. With every shot you need to think how to make the most of it

DougClayton4231

Yeah, I really do love Motionbuilder, it makes life so much easier. How many cameras are used during mocap?

DerDude

cameras are animated later in maya, for cinematics we had a virtual camera, but that stuff i worked on was for gameplay

LRoy

I love seeing stuff like this. Great work.

bcottage

Completed the game last night with a group of mates. The animation was amazing dude great work.

Cexar

Really cool animations! Curious of how the skirt setup was configured and if you had to go in and animate it ontop of the existing animation.

spectre1130

Totally awesome animations. And gory to boot.

DerDude

Thanks for you kind comments