{"id":147,"date":"2015-01-28T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmcgeoch.com\/wp\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:32:21","slug":"gt-legends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/?page_id=147","title":{"rendered":"GT Legends, GTR2, RACE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simbin Studios AB | 2004-2006<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Between 2004-2006, whilst running my own one-man animation company, ‘Dan McGeoch Animation, or DMA’, I contracted to work in the role of an external animation consultant to ‘Simbin Studios AB’ of Sweden to introduce characters to their GT Racing simulation titles ‘GTR Legends’, ‘GTR2’ and subsequently ‘RACE, The Official WTCC Game’.<\/p>\n

The work involved initial design and planning of the motion data, character rigging, blocking and key-framing of proofs, the organising and directing of motion capture shoots at\u00a0‘Simula’<\/a>, the University of Bradford’s commercial Motion Capture facility , data clean-up and motion editing, pretty much the entire pipeline from design to implementation of the final motion via the ‘Renderware’ middle-ware platform.<\/p>\n

During this time I’d teamed up with my old friend Roger Bacon, ex Warthog, who provided all of the character modelling\u00a0for the projects.\u00a0Between us we provided a solution to Simbin’s character requirements.<\/p>\n

Pit Crew<\/em><\/h2>\n

A golden rule of motion capture is\u00a0to hire performers that are talented at the type of motion you are targeting. Simbin AB, who were formed by an ex professional FIA GT champion, Henrik Roos, required absolute authenticity with the pit-crew motion and so hired\u00a0a\u00a0professional\u00a0FIA GT Team Engineer to perform all of the mocap for us on this shoot.<\/p>\n

It’s also very important that props used during mocap are the correct size, shape and weight in order to achieve accurate natural motion. We used actual FIA GT props in the form of huge GT wheels, a ‘very’ heavy pneumatic wheel gun and also had a custom wheel mount built to act as a sturdy hub.<\/p>\n

\"SBDT_Mocap\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A great deal of work is of course required in preparation for\u00a0going to mocap. Below is an early \u00a0proof\u00a0render of a generic stand-in character performing a wheel change. The motion was all blocked out\u00a0from key-framed sequences as part of a series of tests\/proofs.<\/p>\n

The Drivers<\/em><\/h2>\n

With the driver motion we wanted to be as authentic as possible and because we were targeting this data at historic GT racing as well as modern day, I decided to play with the idea of implementing the Heel\/toe action as can be seen in the video below. (again this was all early test\/proof stuff so the character is yet again Rogers ‘Dude’ character; the final drivers would of course wear overalls and helmets)<\/p>\n

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Simbin Studios AB | 2004-2006 Between 2004-2006, whilst running my own one-man animation company, ‘Dan McGeoch Animation, or DMA’, I contracted to work in the role of an external animation consultant to ‘Simbin Studios AB’ of Sweden to introduce characters to their GT Racing simulation titles ‘GTR Legends’, ‘GTR2’ and subsequently ‘RACE, The Official WTCC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}