PDG Animation Retarget System
Original MoCap Skeleteton
Meta Human Skeleton
Batch importing of animation files driven by attributes
Match Pose node used to give the same pose to both skeletons
Point Map node for mapping relevant joints from the original skeleton to retarget
The Full Body IK node transfer the motion using full-body inverse kinematics algorithm.
Joint motion preview
Mesh motion preview
FBX file output driven by attributes
TOPs network managing the Input/Output of animation files
Final test with different animations
Breakdown of an animation retarget system I made using Houdini PDG for the game "Gold Fever - The Promised Land". Since the project was using Meta Humans there were mismatching issues with bones and joints at the time to use some commercial mocap animation libraries. The task was to build a scalable system capable of handling bulks of animations in the lesser time possible. The procedural nature of Houdini and the extremely powerful Kine FX set of tools were the perfect fit for the job. I added a TOPs network (PDG) to fully automate the process.
