• Character Creation with a ReconstructMe Scan

    Posted March 20, 2012 By in Gallery, Media With | 7 Comments Character Creation with a ReconstructMe Scan

    We have created a full body scan one of our coworkers while using a bigger volume, and he used this as the basis for a character animation.

    1. The most difficult part of the scanning process was to stand still and not move the arms. We solved this problem by letting the model hold a broomstick in each hand :) This data was later removed from the CAD scan.
    2. To animate the skin of the character a biped system from 3Ds Max was used.
    3. Finally, With Motion Mixer from 3Ds Max, several BIP files were loaded to affect biped motion.

    The result looks quite stunning! Here is a video with the result:

    Here are some more screenshots:

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    I am a Software Engineer, and love to develop cool algorithms. At PROFACTOR I work on multiple research projects, mostly vision and robotics related. One major example is the IRobFeeder which is an automatic bin picking system where I work mostly on object recognition algorithms. I have a private blog too.

  • Christoph Heindl

    Thanks for uploading!

  • Bryan Sang

    Stunning images! I love your posting.

  • Parker Thompson

    How do you go about increasing the volume size?

    • Christoph Heindl

      did you read the usage? :)

  • Khanh

    I would like to ask about step 2 and 3.

    “To animate the skin of the character a biped system from 3Ds Max was used.
    Finally, With Motion Mixer from 3Ds Max, several BIP files were loaded to affect biped motion.”

    If my object is not human body but a botanical tree, do you have any idea how to animate them? I think biped system is only for character, not a tree.

    Thanks

    • Christoph Heindl

      Hi Khanh, I will ask our export on this next week. Ping me again, If you don’t have an answer by the end of next week.

      thanks

    • Jan

      I assume Biped was just used because it’s already included in 3dsmax. An alternative would be CAT for 3dsmax, which allows the creation and animation of character rigs that aren’t human/bipedal. Ultimately though you could just go ahead and build the skeletal structure yourself, without any special plugin, and animate it by hand.