It should feel more like the easiest part as to make the whole process as painless as possible you will need to plan everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING! It really is one of the fail to plan, plan to fail things. Sounds simple enough? Except within each one of those steps there are a number of other tasks to contend with likeĪs you can see the actual capturing of the motion is only a small part of the whole motion capture process. Before you start capturing you need to decide what you’re going to capture and how you’re going to capture it.Once the capturing is done you’ll need to map the data to your character and integrate it in to your pipeline.
The actual capturing of the motion or performance is only the middle part of the process though.
#Motion capture software software#
Some facilities have also developed their own software solutions like Giant Studios. There are also a number of third party software solutions like Autodesk MotionBuilder and PeelSolve. Some capture systems come with their own software for doing this – Vicon’s Blade, Motion Analysis’ Cortex, and Xsens MVN software. If you think of it like a puppet system, you need the strings to transfer the movements of the performer on to the puppet in the computer. In it’s raw form motion capture is simply a set of values for each sensor at a specific time, so you need a way to transfer this data on to your object inside a computer. Inertial systems measure the acceleration and rotation of each sensor. Optical systems calculate the relative position of each marker.
Attaching the sensor is the easy bit, applying the data to your model convincingly is the tricky part.Īll motion capture systems collect some sort of data from the object the sensors are attached to. In simple terms motion capture systems can capture the motion of anything you can attach a sensor to. As a process it is the planning, recording and integration of that data – It’s the people in Lycra suits covered in shiny ping-pong balls you see in the “Make of Section” of your DVDs.
#Motion capture software series#
So what is Motion Capture, Performance Capture or Mocap? In it’s simplest form it is the recording of the motion of an object by a computer using a series of sensors.
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