Design of Moving 3D Characters
Character preparation for the motion capture program
A course by Jaime Alvarez Sobreviela , Model and designer
Joined May 2015
About the video: Character preparation for the motion capture program
Overview
“In order to animate your character with the motion capture technique, we must prepare the project beforehand so that it meets the technical requirements. In the attached documents you will find the * .C4D of my Domesti-Bot with the UVS. ”
In this video lesson Jaime Alvarez Sobreviela addresses the topic: Character preparation for the motion capture program, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of Moving 3D Characters. Learn to easily create unique and fun characters with Cinema 4D.
Partial transcription of the video
“Our character is already finished. Now what we want is prepare to be able to export it to OBJ. Come on. We are not finished. Now what we're going to do is the character preparation for the motion capture program. What I have to do now is to convert all these objects into a single object in order to open it in Mixamo. Let's take out all of the subdivisions. No matter the order because then we're going to ... Collapse everything, would you say? These here, now we see it. Those who have symmetry, now we see them. The head too. All this here I'm going to erase it. I can put the eyes afterwards,...”
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Course summary for: Design of Moving 3D Characters
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D, V-Ray -
Areas
3D, 3D Character Design, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Animation, Character Design, Photography Post-production

Jaime Alvarez Sobreviela
A course by Jaime Alvarez Sobreviela
Jaime Álvarez Sobreviela is the creator of Mr. Kat & Friends, a universe of characters led by Mr. Kat and accompanied by his closest friends: the fluffy cat Vanilla and the mystic Cosmic Panda. His character style has a marked kawaii style, also inspired by ancestral cultures and their own cats. A combination as heterogeneous as it is evident when he sees his works.
Through his designs, Jaime has worked for clients such as Apple, Movistar and McCann Worldgroup and has participated in festivals such as Today at Apple, OFFF and Pictoplasma.
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