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I mostly used Move AI for the mocap, then just some refinement in maya

@@MasteringCinematics wait so did you walk around like a little girl or does the app allow mocap from video

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@@MasteringCinematics Thank you for the feedback .. this will help figure how to do this for my job.

Hey dude, thanks! Yeah I'm also tempted to start diving into Blender, it's got so much more stuff than Maya, I feel like maya will be obsolete soon.

@@MasteringCinematics I dont think Maya will be Obsolete anytime soon because it is Best at what it does, especially animation, while Blender is a jack of all trades which is a good and a bad thing depending on who you talk to or which company you work for, etc. But like Unreal Engine 5 Blender is the new Buzzing Program, a lot of the younger kids use it, etc, and now it's gaining popularity , so much so that Cinema 4D Copied its interface. Some industry companies are starting to use Blender, But MAYA and C4D is still the industry standard

I just released a more in depth video: czcams.com/video/-zOhJgBPJYo/video.html talks a bout my process and stuff

Forgot the Exact name, but it's from Papaya Digital. It's one of the packs

Yeah, it's really hard to make cg faces look right

Thank you. I'm creating one right now

Thank you!

I use Substance Painter, really easy to texture anything, but the Unreal Metahuman material also helped for the extra detail and realism.

@@MasteringCinematics do you do all your texturing in maya or unreal or substance painter

Mainly in Substance painter. And some material stuff in Unreal

@@MasteringCinematics Right it seems like the best way to go then dealing with UVs and doing everything the old way .

Previs is just the previsualization of the work before doing the actual heavy lifting. Think of it as the outline before the drawing itself.

Yes, what @LxrdSwift said. 👍 Basically a blueprint of the final product. Maya was used for the previs and final animation. Unreal engine mainly for lighting and rendering

There's a setting in Advanced skeleton to automatically rig metahumans. I believe there's a tutorial in their channel on how to do that. It's basically a generic rig that the Metahuman joints are constrained to. When you are done animating in maya, you just export the joints and the mesh (ignoring the rig)

@@MasteringCinematics Hey, thanks, figured it out finally. Anyway, it's criminal that you don't have more subs, your work is amazing!

Thanks man! Now I'm starting to focus more on youtube. So hopefully I can grow this channel fast. 🤞

Thanks! I'll be posting one maybe next week

You mean the Girl or the whole video? The whole video took about 6 months, sometimes working full time, sometimes part time.

@@MasteringCinematicshow many hours then? 500?

Haha, yes I'm trying to upload some really soon

@@MasteringCinematics thanksss

Yes! That'd be so cool to work on a short for LDR. The whole thing took about 6 months. And for the particles I used the old Cascade system (don't ask 😁), but worked pretty well for what I wanted. Thank you!

Thanks man! Yeah I should probably do something explaining all that stuff. The cables were animated using a maya Ragdoll plugin.

@@MasteringCinematics ready for your master class in unreal! Trying to soak all the knowledge you can give lol

Yeah kinda, the head is a pain to re-rig, so I just modified its textures. The body though is much easier to modify and reskin later on.

Thanks! It's just a simple animated noise, increasing and decreasing the emission values of the LED material.

Thank you!

Don't!, you are making me feel old 😶

Thanks! It was a scanned mesh

@@MasteringCinematics wow there is an app for it? i really want to try it too hahah

Yeah not sure what they used for it, I just received the mesh from the band. They took a series of pictures around the singer's face to create it, and cleaned the mesh up in Blender.

Thank you!

Your tutorial on the metahuman facial rig controls was very helpful on this. Thank you!

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@Gaamer_93, tem um plugin: Speak Subtitles for CZcams, você estala e tem o áudio traduzido para português.. Quando é material em inglês, uso ele para assistir aos vídeos

Ughh thanks!

Thanks, I used a Ragdoll plugin for Maya. I'll make a video about it soon

Maybe this can help? czcams.com/video/wFhZxRJZN8E/video.htmlsi=RM1Nu2cLjleeTU2X

USD export

I don't export the whole scene, just the essential geo to help me animate in Maya. If you have Nanite activated, it'll automatically export a low proxy version of it.

@@MasteringCinematics thank you very much

@@yizhao3732 I'd rather avoid using usd with unreal as it is very prone to crashing at least the last time I used it with Houdini and ue 5.4

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words. Yeah it is a bit of a challenge learning all the other fields, but with dedication and patience it's definitely possible. Do you post your animations online, I'd love to check them out.

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70 indeed. Thanks!

Its mostly moCap, cleaned up and polished in Maya. Then exported into Unreal

@@MasteringCinematics thank you , it's beautiful work:D