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The character has a legit swallow mechanic where the animation rig triggers a pull on the Larynx up into the neck disturbing his sternohyoid muscles... which is causing some of the extra movement... If it becomes too distracting to have that much details in the neck during the short, it can easily be toned back. We'll see. The technique of animated displacements certainly transfers a considerate amount of underlying movement.

When you say "motion capture", are you talking about the resolving the bone location within the hand to capture the actions... or is it solving for the skin data similar to the 4d face capture (but for hands)?

Thank you Tobias, glad you're liking the videos! Can't wait to show you more.

You should probably take a look at the other videos on my channel. lol

I'm still using Ziva on currently ongoing projects, but Adonis is on my list of software to try out. I'm guessing Houdini will be the backup everyone will go with. It's already used in significant amounts for CFX pipelines in quite a few houses.

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​@@markduvsir I just saw the videos of Adonis, I'm just little curious and u the only one who can tell me. Is Adonis give us realistic animals animation?

Generally yes. Adonis is a VERY new product on the market, and in my investigations, it looks like its missing some parts of the pipeline. It does seem fast, which is nice... how much accuracy you’re giving up for all that speed will be interesting to investigate. There’s limited info right now with it as young as it is.

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No, not for cartoony style characters... These skeleton/muscle setups typically bind you to realistic physics and are created to visually mimic real life. The extra work can really pay off, if that's the style you're looking for.

I talk about it more in the video after this.

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Ziva calls friction “Contact Sliding”. It’s an on or off option, but it works.

@@markduv Do you mean you used Contact Sliding Off ?

I was just saying that the option of friction is a binary choice. You are correct that “off” is the correct choice for this. lol

Glad you like it!

Yeah, same here. Hands never look right without that "squishy" fleshy deformation that really sells contact with the item it's interacting with. It'd be almost impossible to get out of a traditional anim rig.

Thanks RectangularDots!

This playblast was the simulation of the soft tissue aspect of the process (which is a majority of it)... it takes about three quarters of a minute a frame to simulate/render.

I do have another video that's been on the backburner for a while. Can't wait to get it out.😃

I'm using attachments the same way a normal face uses real muscles. "Ziva Muscles" or Tissues is being pulled towards the bone or other tissues using attachments. Got it?

at frame 4:25 the red attachment is tissue to tissue? Like the upper lip tissue is attached to the lower lip tissue? Is the ziva bones controlling all the movement?

The red attachments you see there is both tissue to tissue and tissue to bone which does include the upperlip to the lowerlip. On frame 4:25 you can see red attachments floating outside the head that pull the dynamic tissue outward towards invisible bone objects to emulate a cheek puff.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks! Yeah, these R&D videos that I can release online, take a while to finish due to only being able to work on it during my spare (non-paid job) time.

Thanks! I may make one depending on work load. I do have an interesting video coming...

Hello! While I can't see exactly what you're looking at, any thin items like blood vessels will need to have high collision tolerance settings. Ziva's default tissue collision settings (10^6) are set that way to speed up typical muscle rigs where some penetration is fine because it'll get covered up by fat. I'd also say, Ziva's collision system favors higher poly count geo objects, so an extra subdivision would probably help.

​@@markduv Thank you so much!

No worries!

There are a few different implementations of this in the rig, but the simplest one is just a math node that converts linear cm into degrees.

That would be pretty cool to put together. For now, I have another topic I'm tackling at the moment for another video. lol

@@markduv Please do this! I would pay for it ASAP!!! :D

I wasn't fully planning to do mocap facial animation for the short, so the facial rig is more geared towards being artist driven. There's no reason it couldn't be modified towards mocap. The face being inherently "alive" really helps cut down on the amount of keyframing you need to do.

Its like it's the future or something. lol

One of the things I didn't get into in the video is that there's multiple levels of breathing delay applied to different body parts to get that overlapping action you'd want when animated. It will be cool to show it with the finished character fx applied.

Hello my Colombian friend! This video is mostly about what they'd call character FX, and only has a tiny bit about rigging. If you are looking at learning to rig, there are quite a bit of resources floating around out there today as it's quite a mature field of study. Everything from creating controls to vertex weighting. Character FX is a little more wild west and mostly spreads between Ziva and Houdini (for Muscle simulation). Ziva's muscle system is a little more mature, but some shops are embedded in Houdini's full service workflow. Maybe one of these days I'll do some videos about Ziva basics to get people started. Hmmm.

@@markduv Thank you very much, Mark, for your response. Your work is truly impressive and has sparked my interest in the field of character VFX. Thanks again for replying

Thanks Menny!

I have another one coming that I can't say I've seen before. Glad you liked it!

Thanks!