 So, today's video is sponsored, and you guys know that I'm always extremely transparent when it comes to sponsored videos, but this sponsor is different from other sponsors. Because this is the first time a sponsor from a company that I really love and have been using for years has reached out to me. And that company is Rokoko. Now, Rokoko is special to me because back when I first started Royal Skies as an indie game company, I knew I wanted to take 3D animation seriously. And I knew motion capture was going to be inevitably important if we were going to succeed in the future at all. And in 2015, one of my best friends who was helping me start the company showed me a Kickstarter for Rokoko. Back then it was called Salto. Now we didn't have much, but at the time the only options for motion capture were a $25,000 studio with 25 cameras, or something like this suit for a few thousand bucks. And it was pretty clear that we were not going to make $20,000 anytime soon, but if we pulled some money together, we could probably afford to back the suit on Kickstarter. So Royal Skies was actually one of the first and original backers for Rokoko ever. And I actually have the first version of the suit they ever created. And I have been using it for motion capture for all of my projects ever since it came in the mail. If you've been on this channel for a while, you have probably seen my various motion capture tutorials and projects before. I've tried quite a few other motion capture solutions. I've tried Kinect, I've tried iPie, I've tried Breckle, and to this day Rokoko is still the most intuitive, fast, simple, and affordable solution for any small 3D studio out there. Like, yes, it is possible to find free body motion capture like Kinect, and it is possible to find free hand capture software, and you can probably find free face motion capture stuff too, but you will spend the rest of your life debugging and cleaning up animation data because the face was recorded at 30 frames per second while the hands were recorded at 20 and the body was recorded at 60. And then you have to manually make sure that the lips are in sync with the body because the recordings were at different speeds. And some of them export in different formats and it's really just a goddamn nightmare. With Rokoko though, you just turn on your computer, put the suit on, press record, and the body, hands, and face are all automatically always in perfect sync. You're not wrestling with frame rates, crazy recording settings, you don't spend hours every day drawing imaginary boxes to help the camera know where you are, but none of that. No, all you do is press the red button, move around, and when you're done, click export and the body and hand animation data goes straight to your character in perfect synchronization. It's everything you could ever want as a 3D animator. And cool little story. While I was talking to Rokoko about this video, they asked me about the direction that I personally wanted to take the channel. And I told them the same thing that I told you guys, which is we're going to move from Unity and learn how to make beautiful, awesome, cool animations in Unreal. I'm going to use stable diffusion to help me design the concepts for new characters, then I'll sculpt them with my 3D modeling skills, texture them in substance, and just have fun animating them and exporting to Unreal for cool little projects. Then they asked me what I was going to use to record the animations. And I told them the same suit that I've been using for everything ever since your first Kickstarter in 2015. And they were like, Jesus Christ, the first suit. And I was like, yes, sir, I love it. And it still works perfectly today. And they were like, bro, if you're going to do all this cool stuff in Unreal, we want to help you. So they mailed me the newest version of the Rokoko suit. And that is going to be the suit that I used to motion capture all the cool stuff that we're going to be doing in Unreal. So with the new suit, I immediately noticed some pretty cool changes they've made. So I wanted to cover those improvements and why it's going to help us moving forward into Unreal. And remember, I have the very first version that they ever produced from the Kickstarter. So we're comparing version zero with the final version. And the number one thing that I love about the new suit that I immediately noticed is that it comes with built in wires that power the gloves. With the first suit, I literally had to buy two different portable batteries with two separate USB cables and plug the batteries into each glove and hope that the cables didn't fall out while I was moving around. And that problem is completely gone. Next is you used to have to connect the cable to the battery on your back. And that was really hard to reach because, you know, you had to zip up your back. But the new suit has the cable placed in the front so you can actually reach the battery now and easily zip it away in your front. Next, Rokoko has a new platform called Studio Beta, which includes new features like elevation tracking. It's still in the works, but from what I've seen so far, the data looks a lot cleaner and a lot smoother. Also, something else that I've noticed that has been updated is the suit is a lot more resilient to magnetic interference. Before, if you were around any metal objects at all, like if you were holding your phone or your mouse, then the hands would spaz out and tell you that you were too close to metal. But it's much better now and it happens a lot less. And just like the old suit, the recording is simple. The face, hands and body are all synchronized. When you take the data into whatever software you want like Maya or Blender. It's super easy to edit and adjust. And if you want to clean things up, I have a whole bunch of tutorials on how to do that over here. But basically the suit is better in every way and the data is cleaner and smoother. So if you are a small company and you have a budget of a few thousand bucks, get the body. If you can afford it, I highly recommend that you also get the hands in face. I promise to hundreds of hours of time that you will say will be well worth the investment you put into the suit. And if you're not sure about whether or not this suit is for you, Rokoko has an awesome 30 day money back guarantee. So there's no risk at all for you. You either get exactly what you want and need or you get your money back guaranteed. And if you use this link right here, you can get all the cool stuff we talked about with the discount and you'll help this channel grow at the same time. So if you're a serious animator and you're looking for quality affordable motion capture, I've been using Rokoko for years and I highly recommend you do too. All of the mocap animation stuff that we're about to do in Unreal is going to be recorded with Rokoko. So I hope you look forward to it. And as always, I hope you have a fantastic day. Now I'll see you around.