Looping Dance Animations like Fortnite or WoW

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Dances could be cool, funny or sexy.

Fortnite sells these for $5-$10 each, so this would be a big moneymaker for the artist willing to make these.

Fun fact: Dance moves can't be copyrighted, only specific dance performances can be copyrighted.

 

WendyLuvsCatz

it's a bit different selling DAZ usable ones because while the moves might be public domain someone still needs to keyframe or motion capture them, you cannot retarget someone else's file.

pretty much limits what we can get to people with very keen posing skills or owners of perception neuron or other suits that can actually dance

the first one anyone can attempt but it's tedious 

EightiesIsEnough

WendyLuvsCatz said:

it's a bit different selling DAZ usable ones because while the moves might be public domain someone still needs to keyframe or motion capture them, you cannot retarget someone else's file.

 

But can you retarget someone else's file if you plan on only using the dance animation for personal use?

I was really hoping that there'd be a new add-on to DAZ Studio someday that would allow replicating movements from certain people in a video.

EightiesIsEnough

Hotsauce said:

Dances could be cool, funny or sexy.

Fortnite sells these for $5-$10 each, so this would be a big moneymaker for the artist willing to make these.

Fun fact: Dance moves can't be copyrighted, only specific dance performances can be copyrighted.

 

I think one example of a copyrighted dance move is the trademark moves by John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever".

WendyLuvsCatz

EightiesIsEnough said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

it's a bit different selling DAZ usable ones because while the moves might be public domain someone still needs to keyframe or motion capture them, you cannot retarget someone else's file.

 

But can you retarget someone else's file if you plan on only using the dance animation for personal use?

I was really hoping that there'd be a new add-on to DAZ Studio someday that would allow replicating movements from certain people in a video.

well depending on terms of usage of the animation the file retargeting is fine for rendering it yourself but you cannot redistribute or sell the now DAZ format duf animation file.

people rip animation from games for example  to use in things like Source Filmmaker or MikuMikuDance

the usage by the person is a bit of a grey area and can fall under fan art but sharing the file with others is definitely wrong.

most users of those softwares actually do keyframe their own animations but have varying usage conditions on their stuff most prohibiting redistribution by others which is why various tutorials on converting such stuff are popular because the user pretty much has to do it themselves with the original obtained from the creator.

Perception Neuron apparently can do the video thing BTW and using programs like iClone 3Dxchange or Motionbuilder you can retarget animation for DAZ people, you need to pony up the cash and buy the software basically.

I use iClone6 pipeline myself and can retarget just about any bvh file to DAZ figures but I am certainly not allowed to do it for others.

WendyLuvsCatz

if you can compile stuff there are many options 

(I cannot )

https://github.com/Dene33/video_to_bvh

https://github.com/Dosomecrazy/video2bvh

Robinson

EightiesIsEnough said:

I think one example of a copyrighted dance move is the trademark moves by John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever".

Imagine copyrighting a dance move. 

WendyLuvsCatz

Robinson said:

EightiesIsEnough said:

I think one example of a copyrighted dance move is the trademark moves by John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever".

Imagine copyrighting a dance move. 

Epic Games already won that battle 

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