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Beatrice Schmidt, a Technical Artist, Animator, and Cinematographer specializing in motion capture animations, has shared a sneak peek at a short work-in-progress sequence featuring incredibly realistic and fluid hand and face movements.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, the animation was brought to life through the mocap technology, with the Xsens suit and Faceware's facial motion capture system having been utilized to capture the basic movements of the sequence. The captured data, the artist noted, was then retargeted to the character's skeleton, with additional adjustments made to ensure smoother finger movements.
"It's interesting to note that the head and eye movements in the animation don't always match those in the video," commented Beatrice. "I used a backwards solve control rig to make an additive edit on top of the mocap animation data, both for the face and the body, to better match the vision of the project's creative director. If you want to know a bit more about this method, it's explained in more detail in my ArtStation."
As mentioned above, the project is still WIP, with the creator planning to demonstrate the final results and reveal more information in the coming days. We highly encourage you to follow Beatrice on LinkedIn so as not to miss the reveal. In the meantime, you can also check out the artist's ArtStation page to see more of Beatrice's earlier works.
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