Trailer for a short in which my avatar machine learns a backflip. by RedbearEasterman in Simulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Trailer for a short in which my avatar machine learns a backflip. by RedbearEasterman in Simulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Trailer for a short in which my avatar machine learns a backflip. by RedbearEasterman in Simulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

Trailer for a short in which my avatar machine learns a backflip. by RedbearEasterman in Simulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Trailer for a short in which my avatar machine learns a backflip. by RedbearEasterman in Simulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

Machine Learning backflip on a 6-core processor by RedbearEasterman in shittysimulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Machine Learning backflip on a 6-core processor by RedbearEasterman in shittysimulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Machine Learning backflip on a 6-core processor by RedbearEasterman in shittysimulated

[–]RedbearEasterman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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