Wow, its been quiet a while since I last posted anything on this site, I guess I’ll have to try and be a bit more active on here.

As part of my teacher training that I am doing at the college, I am going to have to write 2 case studies on areas that cover teaching etc.

So with what I am teaching, most of the modules require you to tell the students about new and up coming software developments, so with that in mind, I am hoping to write a case study covering this piece of software.

I am only going to be working on 2 case studies and hopefully explore this idea more. Check back in about 8 weeks for the completed case study.

I have started getting some research papers to read and find out some more information in the area that I am very interested in. I know that realistic animation and motion capture are to massive areas that go off in different tangents, but I am trying to build a bridge between the two.

The area that I am interested in and want to develop is realistic computer animation with the use of a motion library. This will contain a number of movements, such as walk/run cycles, arm movements and some other pre-determined movements. This will be in a motion library, similar to the shelf in Maya, you apply this to the rig of the character and set the parameters to suite the character. This will then last for a set time or cycles and the character moves in a realistic way.

This is something that I am hoping to develop and something that I will be spending about 4 years of my life developing to make sure it’s right. So the understanding of motion capture and realistic animation is paramount.

I have recently had my idea accepted for me to develop at NEWI, so I will be able to work on my research.

I’ll make another post that will be updated regularly with the different research material that I am reading that is helping with the development of the motion library.