suggestions for animated people?

[prey1979]

Hello all i have to do an animation walkthrough of a mall an dthey want to see moving people walking around etc. can anyone suggest a good plugin for this? that works well with vray?

[shytigercp]

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Character Studio w/ low res models.

[prey1979]

anyone tried MARLIN studios people in motion?

[prey1979]

my firm has animated rpc characters but it causes crashes all the time .. the instant exit fast type crash.. and well we called rpc and the ywere saying its not compatible and their is no discussion between them or the creators of vray to make it compatible but where saying they were in discussions with brazil splutterfiush... i dont know if this is true thought anyone have trouble wiht rpc walking ppl??? im looking at marlin studios people in motion to use its getting close to a massive animation deadline... can anyone suggest anythign???
please?!
thanks

[shytigercp]

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Marlin's People in motion is probably your best bet, although Character studio can be used fairly quickly...it doesn't take long to bone a simple character mesh. You could import people from poser, assign the phsique modifier...apply footsteps in whatever direction. Disregard everything I've said if you're working in Viz.

[prey1979]

heheh im working in viz

i just curious though since these marlin people are just opacity mapped planes how can i get it if the camera turns that they dont look like animated knife edges?

[J_Bug]

There is something new from curious labs which allows for import of Poser characters and animations. I believe I saw it on maxunderground.

--Jon

[kbalage]

It's called Body Studio, it's a plugin for max. U can find more details here:
http://www.reiss-studio.com/trade/productview/8/3/

[corey]

prey1979,
you bring up a good point...the Marlin P-I-M can be labor intensive and not worth the money if you have to keyframe the board you have the map on to rotate to a position that matches your camera movement. Also they tend to jump off the ground too much. Because there is no perfect solution we use PIM for quick and good enough results to get the point across...not my ideal choice.

corey

[asango]

i just curious though since these marlin people are just opacity mapped planes how can i get it if the camera turns that they dont look like animated knife edges?

use a "look at" constraint

basically it makes the plane face your camera regardless of where u move it.

[RErender]

I have to say that I think Marlin people are a good choice if you are going for photoreal although the camera moves are limited. Also it works well if you hide their feet behind something like a bench, plant or ... I haven't tried it but they may render faster if you use displacement instead of opacity.

[Psy]

i have some low res meshes of humans if u'd like.

http://www.3dmaxedout.com/humans.rar