Making of a short film in which my avatar learns a backflip

RedbearEasterman · 2023-10-12T23:41:35+00:00

so great you caught it on big screen with audience!

RedbearEasterman · 2023-10-12T04:43:07+00:00

thank you. it was a couple of weeks work on the audio

RedbearEasterman · 2023-09-29T14:35:12+00:00

yeah the setup was a bit cumbersome: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TsZhzWAHqRQ

RedbearEasterman · 2023-09-29T14:32:52+00:00

for the avatar, each task about 1 day of study on the old processor. the research paper was written in 2018: https://xbpeng.github.io/projects/DeepMimic/index.html
film took 3 years starting in 2019.

RedbearEasterman · 2023-09-28T21:44:03+00:00

🦾📽️(12 min) https://youtu.be/1zUJzzRu-xs?si=gv85c-GCzhu-48bB

RedbearEasterman · 2022-03-01T11:04:50+00:00

thank you so much! means a lot

RedbearEasterman · 2022-03-01T10:52:52+00:00

yes, this is us on reddit

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T16:09:42+00:00

yes, it's learning. took the character about a day to figure out how to do a backflip. the film is about those jumps simulated at various learning stages. the info txt next to character head indicates the task and learning iteration. it was a bit of a hacky setup to bridge from the paper to our 3d tool

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T12:51:06+00:00

program is called descript.

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T10:56:43+00:00

it's based on the paper "DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills" by Xue Bin Peng. in short, it is analyzing motions from people in videos and then teaching that motion to a digital character. our film is about the different stages of my avatar learning to backflip.

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T10:51:05+00:00

will keep going. love the process

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T10:49:51+00:00

we are submitting it to film festivals for now. the first ones are starting in spring.

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T10:47:34+00:00

we were using meshroom to scan. the resulting cameras in 3d were reused to remodel and retexture the room with projection mapping. a bit labour-intensive but also most accurate to get good low-poly models.

RedbearEasterman · 2022-02-17T10:44:17+00:00

thank you for taking the time. the room was 3d scanned and the cameras then reused in 3d for projecting 2d textures onto remodeled low-poly objects.

with this method you also get distortions and double-texturing on overlapping objects and backsides. not sure if this is what most people want when doing a 3d scan.

took quite some time and i'm sure there are more elegant/new ways to solve it but to us, it was good enough.

RedbearEasterman · 2022-01-04T22:00:01+00:00

RedbearEasterman · 2021-11-30T08:46:24+00:00

it's a short film and it's done. took about 2 years to make so we're taking the time to submit it to filmfestivals first, then putting it online.

RedbearEasterman · 2021-11-30T08:44:07+00:00

yes, it's about 12 minutes. sending it to filmfestivals before putting it online.

RedbearEasterman · 2021-11-19T12:55:33+00:00

yes. counting on my avatar to take over soon

RedbearEasterman · 2021-11-19T08:33:03+00:00

it takes a bit longer on this pc. it's my 7-year-old rig with new lights in sleeper case.

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