@MovellaEnt + #XsensContest, #Houdini, #SideFX, #UnrealEngine
"Only in My Dreams " was my submission for the MovellEnt Xsens Contest. The task was to use their mocap data from a skydiving session in a short (10-60s), creative animation. This piqued my interest, as it would give me the opportunity to test my learnings in the past year on animation and mocap retargeting. I was particularly interested in testing the new animation workflows in SideFX Houdini 20 . Therefore I set a goal to make a submission.
To meet the timeline for submssion, I decided to utlise existing 3D assets from Mixamo and Unreal Engine in the process. The 3D character is an free Mixamo asset and the skydiving mocap data from Movella was retargeted to the Mixamo Character in Houdini 20 and exported to Unreal Engine. In Unreal Engine, I used the City Park Environment for the scene and animated in sequencer. The scene was rendered in Unreal Engine from 3 camera positions and edited in Davinci Resolve with music from Artlist.. I barely made the submission deadline and had to make some compromises in the vision. It's not perfect but it is promising. The most important thing for me on this project was to exercise discipline and meet my goal to make a submission.
Now to the title of the submission "Only in My Dreams". Paitan Media started as a childhood dream. I'm sure many people have said to themselves "i'd like to make movies". It will only be in your dreams if you don't take action and be disciplined and committed to make your dreams come true. I recently watched biographies of my childhood action heroes ( Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) on Netflix and I was quite inspired by their story. They worked hard despite their challenges to make their dreams come true. That's what we are doing at Paitan Media. We've spent the better part of 2023 to research different forms of technolgy and workflows to help bring our stories to life. In 2024, we hope to inspire the world through our films.
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