NickZ Manimal Time Lapse

XBOX 360 controllerServer (test)

I have been looking into using an XBOX360 controller as a real-time input divide inside of Maya. I had my Alien Shark character laying around collecting dust so I thought I would use it as a test to see if I could do some real-time motion capture like animation in Maya.

I'm pretty pleased with this first test. The feedback is slooooow when I have high quality rendering on with all the bells and whistles. I think if I was going to do this for real I would need a very simple representation of my character to animate with, capture the performance and then render with a higher quality model. (Or I would need a much faster computer.)

Here are the controls that I made for this creature.

Here is a real-time screen capture of my Maya viewport, edited this in Camtasia.



Here is the second test that I created. In this test I captured the motion using just simple shading, this way I could capture the motion in real-time. Once I had the performance captured I put the quality to hi quality rendering with textures,normal maps, lights with shadows. I then playblasted that into this little movie.



Peace-NickZ.

Working With ZSpheres (Spidey 3D Sketch time - lapse)

This is a time lapse move that I created from a ZBrush session. I started with some ZSpheres, created some geometry and then started sculpted that into the final model of Spidey.

This video is a time - lapse movie of the entire session. This is about 3 hours worth of work condensed into about 9 minutes.



Peace - NickZ.

Alien Host Time-Lapse Movie

Here is a time-lapse move that I created of a 3D sketching session inside of ZBrush 3.0.
This was the first time that I creaed a model from a sphere. I then added some music and produced the final movie file in Adobe After Effects.

made with the new ZBrush

Enjoy! NickZ. :)

Luminati Time-Lapse Move

This is a 3D sketch that I made usingZbrush 3.0 go to www.pixologic.com to learn more about the applicaton.


Online Videos by Veoh.com

Alien Shark Time-Lapse

Here is a time - lapse movie that I made with Zbrush 3.0. Created with just a sphere.


NickZ's Veoh Art Channel

Broken Wall (ZBrush Environment Time-Lapse)

NickZ Art Slide Show