April 21st, 2026
Motion Capture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxdcC6LcQQ&t=4651
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Jason
But yeah.
I will, I guess, jump into that.
So the animation at the end of that video in-game was largely done using...
Rococo's AI motion capture where you essentially set up two cameras.
He said the forbidden word.
You set up two cameras and then you use these markers and you can basically get motion capture data that they process in their program.
You can do 15 seconds for free.
Which is honestly
Mikael
a lot of time to work with.
Jason
Yeah.
And so, basically, I just found an empty room in the office and I just acted out everything.
Mikael
All your dreams.
Yeah, he's in the world.
I'm...
Jason
Yeah, it doesn't look great.
From here, I do a bit of cleanup.
I'll move some muscles around on the models, make sure the hands aren't clipping through.
It doesn't do hands, so I did some hand animation.
Moved the heads around too.
But yeah, I have a new process now.
It's a little bit more fun.
The minute movement in the new
Mikael
process is very cool, actually.
Jason
Yeah, well, I actually figured out some... Are you talking about the hands?
Yeah.
So the hands, I actually figured out how to save poses in Sequencer in Unreal.
And so I have a pose for thumbs up.
I have a pose for pointing and shit like that.
Oh, nice, nice.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just some performance capture.
So did that a bunch of times.
If I go back.
I think Gab did a little dance, too.
It didn't really work, though.
It kind of worked, actually.
Mikael
That's pretty
Jason
clean.
Yeah.
And I think... Let's pull down the...
I'm adding new emotes to the game.
I think I might be able to sneak them in at some point.
This is what happens.
You tried, you failed.
You told me to do whatever I wanted, so I did whatever I wanted.
We got to click on it.
We got to click on it.
Oh, God.
Mikael
it's freaked out man oh yeah oh man dude i can't believe i kept my glasses on for that they could have broke so easily
Jason
that's actually true it just really looks god it looks like when like like you know those games that people try and like train like a person to walk over like a thousand iterations this looks like the like the sixth iteration
Just
Jason
sliding
Mikael
around like, that thing is in pain.
Look at it just spasming out.
No.
Jason
No, any emotes we add would not be scope creep.
It would be me being a fucker and making it and it just being the animation sequence and then being like, guys, can we put the hokey pokey in, please?
The hokey pokey.
I want people to be able to hokey pokey.
See if you had a better one.
Very cool.
That
Mikael
one worked pretty well.
Hands are supposed to be stiff, focused, just
Jason
watching.
I have a new process.
I'll go over it another time.
What else we got?