MB Tutorial Part 37: Plotting and Exporting Animation Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Motion Builder - Professional Skills

alright so here we are at the final
lesson in this vtm what we're going to
do is take a look at how we can go about
plotting animation and then sending it
back over to the package of our choice
in this particular case we're going to
use 3ds max kind of balancing everything
out of the beginning of this vtm we
showed you how to go about using both
3ds max and my in regards to creating
rather the Morpher modifier or blend
shapes and then we took a little look at
Maya in the cluster section now the
balance things out we're just going to
go back to 3ds max in regards to
importing the animation back in but the
same things going to apply over in Maya
as well absolutely so just to go and
point out real quick the model that
you're looking at in the scene right now
is the exact same thing we did in the
last lesson except this time we used a
file from 3ds max so that we could
accommodate that more for modifier right
this is not actually the same file that
we used in the last lesson because that
was done with a file from Maya using
blend shapes we've redone it now doing
the exact same thing we did before using
the Morpher modifier with a file from
max okay so let's see how we can go
about getting this voice device out of
there so that we just have animation
left behind nothing else driving it if
you will just keyframe animation so that
we can then send it back over to max
okay well the first thing I'm going to
do is activate recording in my voice
device now as far as MotionBuilder is
concerned the voice device itself is a
lot like a motion capture device so
let's go ahead and enable recording so
that we can record data from it and I'm
going to rewind my animation it's
already rewound but just as a rule of
thumb always make sure i'm at the
beginning of my animation will click the
record button and we'll get a little
warning that says we're about to
overwrite the current takes or whatever
animation we had is about to be
overwritten sure go ahead and override
it it also gives you an option to create
a new take which we don't want to do so
will overwrite and i'm going to hit play
and go all the way through the voice bit
that we just imported into our scene so
here we go welcome to 3d buzz this is an
example of facial animation with
quedaras MotionBuilder
okay so now we actually have that
recording if you will that motion
capture from our voice device recorded
into our actor face so now let's go
ahead and will deactivate recording will
also deactivate live because actually
while this device is live it is driving
our actor face well now that it's
recorded we don't need that anymore so
let's go ahead and switch that off now
I'm going to go into my actor face and
really if you've been key framing your
animation here's how you're going to be
plotting that out it's going to be the
exact same way you'll go into your actor
face and just click plot animation
MotionBuilder will think for a second
and really all the animation you've just
done will be plotted now down into your
character face so from here just real
quick I'm going to jump over to my
relations constraint and will deactivate
that because we don't really need it
anymore then we'll go to our character
face and we will plot the animation out
of that now that's actually going to
plot the animation right into our model
so now the animation that we just
created is actually inside of our model
we can prove that by going through and
let's just delete some stuff out for fun
let's get rid of our voice device we
don't need it will take care of our
relations constraint will delete it out
take our actor face out will delete it
and goodbye to the character face as
well and let's just go ahead and hit
play wine and hit play one more time now
if everything was plotted our character
should still talk when we do this
welcome to 3d buzz this is an example of
facial animation with quedaras
MotionBuilder and there's really no
change that's because all the animation
that we created in our voice device we
sent in to the actor face into the
character face then plotted right to the
model and now we're pretty much set to
go so let's go ahead and save this
actually let me go to say that so I
don't overwrite that file and we'll
change this from face animated to face
plotted that makes sense we just go
ahead and alt tab on over to 3ds max
there we go okay and here we actually
have the file open with the the morph
targets already established we've gone
ahead and deleted out the morph shaved
of course if you go in there hit play
there's no animation right we can go
ahead and hit play and prove that
nothing going on right now very boring
looking and we'll go under file and
we'll import and lo and behold there's
face plotted and we want to bring in
geometries and the shape or morph
modifier and I'll go ahead and click OK
and it'll think and we'll rewind and hit
play yay now we don't hear any sound
because we haven't actually imported
that audio into max but that's really no
big deal don't worry about that right
now let me go ahead and set my frames up
to 270 so we can actually see this whole
animation actually to be honest we we
won't worry about that at all yeah why
yeah we have got the animation from
MotionBuilder back over to 3ds max and
that's all we were looking to do alright
simple enough absolutely so basically
this is going to wrap up the v TM and
it's been a little bit longer of a
process than I expect I figured this v
TM would fly by pretty quick but I guess
we have a way of just kind of going on
and on there's just so much cool stuff
for us to show inside of MotionBuilder
absolutely so it's not our fault it's
just because MotionBuilder such a cool
application we could put some audio in
here and be like to welcome to 3d buzz
this is an example haha that's one shot
that wasn't good NASA oh but uh but
anyway so you guys saw the entire
process from the very beginning where we
went up and set things inside of Maya
with blin shapes or set things up inside
of 3ds max with the Morpher modifier
then brought that over into motion
built-in builder and then in there we
set up the character face the actor face
got everything rigged up showed you how
we can go about doing some animation by
keyframe we also showed you how to do
the cluster stuff and then finally we
showed you how to use the voice device
as well and then here we are bringing it
all back over into your favorite 3d
package well you know or a 3d package
whatever 3d package you just happen to
be not silly we're not saying that Max
is our favorite we love them all mm-hmm
so so anyways with that we've kind of
completed the circle if you will and
that's going to bring us to the end yep
so I'd like to thank everyone out there
for listening to us absolutely moving up
with us of course we have to keep the
little bit of banter going because well
with as many be teams as we put out at
3d buzz it's the only way we stay sane
exactly otherwise we would just die I
mean I've watched so many training
videos were it's just one person going
and now I'm going to do this okay you're
put me to sleep yeah and so you know I
like that we keep things a little upbeat
and kind of joke around with each other
yeah it keeps things somewhat
entertaining if you will also a very
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download this so let's always make sure
to thank God our and before we go I know
we already hit it in the intro but I
want to give one last thanks out to Joe
Clark for letting us use his head and I
want to apologize for butchering it so
badly so would he like if you watch this
video Joe please don't send me too much
hate mail for how this look it was great
everybody again one more time thank you
very much and we'll see you soon in the
next MotionBuilder vtm so long