I've been doing this successfully in Cinema 4D, though it's been very unpredictable and buggy, which is why I'd rather like to recreate this in Houdini.
Thanks to Atom mixing-animations-from-mixamo [forums.odforce.net], I've been able to wrap my head around Houdini's agent system, to blend between FBX animations, e.g. going from a character walking to it being idle.
However, what I did in Cinema 4D was having a walk cycle that only included the leg animation, then blend it with the individual arm and spine animations and then adding a custom head turn, so I could somehow customise the animations to hit precise ‘beats’ within each shot.
How would I go about making this happen in Houdini? I've had a look at the Agent Clip SOP node and the Agent Transform Group SOP and I feel that the solution lies somewhere within those, but Houdini's online help is as cryptic as ever and elsewhere on the web, people seem to only be interested in crowd simulations.
Has anybody here got an idea how to achieve this? That'd be much appreciated
