Building 3D senarios for eLearning - 'Confrontation scenario'
Jan 14, 2015
I was investigating some tools for generating 3D scenarios for use in SL. So just thought I'd show how easy it is to use animated 3D characters (iClone6) to potentially build assets for online learning. If you’re not going to learn 3DS MAX, Maya or C4D - this demo might help - it shows how to set up a simple 'confrontation scenario' between two 3D characters and only takes about a minute.
There are hundreds of premade motions/actions and a lot of characters, props, scenes and different clothes, including nurse outfits, police, defence, managers and other occupations.
I have removed the grid and keyed out the background and imported into SL as an interactive video file and using techniques learnt from Daniel Brigham and others forums greats - works ok - hope it helps. - G
See attached MP4 how to build a simple 'confrontation scenario'
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Other IK samples & 3D characters and actions - G
Garry, thanks a lot for sharing this! One question: did you also manage to lip-synch these characters to audio or do you typically use them in wide shots where gestures and positioning are more important?
Hi Michael, good to talk to you again. IC6 allows you to record voice directly using via a mic, use TTS (text to speech) or just use a pre-recorded wav/mp3 audio file or use script files - characters will lip-synch. You can also use facial puppetring to fine-tune keyframe phoneme's. see attached for a sample of male & female lip-synched audio.
That's great stuff Garry! The characters, their gestures and lip-synch look much more natural than the ones in CodeBaby. Can I get Heidi's phone number? :-)
Never been a fan of CodeBaby - way too expensive. IC6 and it's other 2D animation tools (CrazyTalk Animator2) has royalty free and can be customised facial expressions, clothes, hair, eyes etc. The Heidi character looks ok - I'll ask her ;-)
I agree CodeBaby is very pricey. One of these days, I'm going to set aside some time and check out IC6. Thanks again for he tip.
RL (Reallusion) have also released a Character Creator tool http://www.reallusion.com/iClone/character-creator/default.html
and Crazytalk 8 (3D heads from front and side or just front photos) http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/default.html
PS: Not associated with RL - just like kool tools
Cheers
Garry
Thought I'd add some test renders of 3D characters - now to work out how to use animated button states to animate cropped shots of these characters (eye blink, hand wave) during button rollout over.
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