Graphmate and Keymate plug-ins combination to get a cat jumping on a table

jean_paul_bacon

I just tryed my first combination using millenium cat for a cat jumping on a table. I was impressed about the using interface and easy of use. I could be a great idea to include these products int the next version of daz studio.

There is some adjustments in my file to get a better fluidity of the sequence but to demonstrate here, I think it's enought to show.

I'm not an animator, but it's easy to do with patience ...

Sequence done on a AMD Quad core Phenom, 8 megs of ram and 1 meg on video card. Render at best quality on 400 X 400 pixel with one direct light. It took 10 minutes to render as a movie to techsmith screen capture, pass on Camtasia sutdio 8 to convert as animated GIF.

Dont forget, the table is very slippery !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxnd5klzAdc

no_mstr

Glad to see that GoFigure is getting people interested in animating in DS. Hopefully Daz will start to flesh out the animation toolset a little more as well. Here's my first couple of experiments using GraphMate and KeyMate. The first scene is all keyframed by hand. The second shot uses a Mixamo motion, but I used KeyMate and GraphMate to clean it up quite a bit. The feet on Genesis are still wonky when using BVH motions, hopefully Mixamo can get full Genesis support added soon.

http://youtu.be/ny_srSIeec4