Reimagining Conventional Choreography: Contemporizing Performing Arts with iClone
A Renaissance within the Matrimony of Animation Enhancing and Hybrid Dance

Niels Bosch of Het Nieuwe Kader & Tpose.com

Howdy, I’m Niels, the Artistic Producer at Het Nieuwe Kadar and Tpose.com. In 2016, alongside Berko Mulder, we based our firm as a inexperienced display screen studio fueled by our ardour for 3D animation and visible results. Since then, we now have developed into a good company with a devoted staff of over a dozen professionals, delivering top-notch content material to the business.
Along with content material creation, our firm’s core passions reside in interactive video games and apps, digital manufacturing, and movement seize. Reflecting our relentless pursuit of innovation, we proudly launched Tpose.com in 2023, a devoted enterprise that encompasses every thing and something associated to movement seize and 3D characters. To additional elevate our operations, we lately bid farewell to our previous 1900s studio and embraced the daybreak of a brand new period in our freshly constructed, state-of-the-art workplaces. This transfer not solely enhances the studio expertise for our esteemed shoppers but in addition cultivates an surroundings for our gifted employees to thrive in.

Popularizing Hybrid Dance by way of 3D Digitization
Introdans is a prestigious Dutch dance firm with a wealthy heritage of seamlessly mixing classical ballet, fashionable dance, and modern choreography. With a historical past spanning over 5 a long time, the dance firm is now looking for to revitalize its web site and recruit new dance members. To assist them accomplish this, we determined to make use of motion capture technology on considered one of their completed dancers, infusing a recent vibe into their time-honored custom.
We had the pleasure of recording Alberto, an exceptionally gifted skilled dancer, in our studio. To seize his actions, we utilized the cutting-edge motion-capture go well with from Xsens and the Quantum Metagloves, a state-of-the-art motion-capture glove, from Manus. Throughout the session, we documented a wide range of dances, swiftly retargeting them to a 3D template character utilizing iClone. Subsequently, we generated particular person movies of every dance, permitting Introdans to pick their favorites. Your entire shoot, together with preparation, spanned roughly half a day, whereas the general manufacturing lasted round 2 weeks. This collaborative endeavor was achieved with fluid coordination and flexibility, leading to an consequence that each events took immense satisfaction in.


iClone as a Essential Component
For animation enhancing, I collaborated with my colleague Tim de Haan, who performed a pivotal position. By referencing Reallusion’s free iClone motion editing tutorials to complement his business experience, Tim was in a position to set up a possible manufacturing pipeline. With the latest features in iClone added to the combination, our workflow was additional optimized, leading to substantial time financial savings.

We designed and developed a fascinating character particularly for the Introdans webpage, using the highly effective instruments of Character Creator 4. With a simple course of, we seamlessly transferred the character to iClone. Because of the built-in movement profiles, importing the Xsens information into iClone turned a breeze. Nonetheless, given the variance in physique proportions between the dancer and our character, some animation refinement was mandatory. Thankfully, iClone proved to be a useful asset on this regard. With out additional ado… permit us to current some outstanding case research:
Motion layers proved to be indispensable in resolving mesh penetration. By leveraging movement layers, we had been in a position to exactly place the legs and arms, successfully eliminating any intersection with adjoining geometry.

The utilization of distinct animation layers offered a transparent venture overview. Making use of the identical precept, we additionally applied posture correction to make motion extra pure.

iClone proved to be extremely advantageous in seamlessly incorporating foot contact into the actions. This was effortlessly achieved by precisely positioning the hips on the acceptable top, permitting the inverse kinematics to naturally bend the knees and firmly plant the ft on the ground.


To realize a clean rolling movement of the ft over the bottom, we utilized the Curve Editor to determine and handle any erratic keys. By smoothing out these keys, we had been in a position to obtain a way more interesting outcome. The implementation of footstep stabilization proved to be immensely useful in resolving any hovering movement. This had a big constructive influence on the ultimate consequence, and we discovered it easy to make any mandatory changes alongside the best way.

Different Helpful Instruments
We finalized the animations with facial and hand animations. The Digital Soul pack proved to be a wonderful useful resource for reaching expressive facial animations. Moreover, the Hand Gesture Puppeteering Plugin facilitated the seamless recording of assorted hand poses. Leveraging the Unreal Live Link plugin for iClone, we effortlessly imported the character into Unreal 5 with correct precision.



The dance stage was created in Maya and Unreal Engine 5 by Jurre. To realize ultra-realistic textures, Substance Painter was utilized. As the ultimate contact to reinforce the realism, the built-in Unreal 5 digital digital camera, mixed with an iPad Professional, was employed.



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