This sprint was the sprint of problems for me.
For this sprint, I worked with Kate, Emily, Jules, and Cheryl in the mocap stage to try and get live link working so we could capture real time data for the camera movements. We ran into a lot of trouble with figuring out how it works and setting up, but eventually we got a take for one of the shots where the camera moves. See the video below for proof of our progress:
Next I added the mocap skeletons from our take to perforce and wrote up some documentation for our rigging artists to follow. They needed to place the mocap skeleton from our two actors into the proxy meshes that Kase created last sprint. They had to move the joints in a very specific way to ensure our custom character rigs would map onto the mocap data properly.
Once I had the skeletons from the riggers, I tested them in Motion Builder. I encountered some issues where the skeleton would almost map to the mocap's root bone but would only snap to the side of the character. Eventually we figured out that the ankles were put in the wrong place when being rigged, which was throwing off the scale of the initial mocap skeleton.
After that problem was solved, I added the new characterized rigs to the unreal project.
