The Last Samurai

2024, Year 3, Semester 1

This was a project created for my minor in Motion Capture. In a group with Paddy Benson, Luka Bartley, and Luke McLeod, we had to create a video that used a virtual scene and camera. Our brief included working in the AUT motion capture studio and also making the virtual scene within Unreal Engine.

The video had to include:

• One trigger element from UE

• 3D modelled environment with texturing, assets from UE marketplace were allowed

• A digital character created with a head scan of a live model from photogrammetry data with a meta-human character

• A simulation from UE

• A 3D animation

What was my role?

I did most of the creative planning for the project, I created moodboards and storyboards that we could use as reference. I worked on helping the group with photogrammetry and the meta-human. Finally, I animated the bird that is in the scene, I had to 3D model it and texture it also. The group work was only necessary for the practical portion of this project, the video you see below was edited by me and I picked clips from the filming we got in the Motion Capture Studio. I have also included the breakdown video that shows how the whole project was made, this will include my groups work also.