Why motion capture is harder than it looks

With ai and a smartphone this whole process can be done easily with any mesh and rig

it can be done by human? I thought that was just magic. Well done human!

Looking at 99% of mocap CG in movies, i would say

Step1: throw out the mocap data
Step2: pay a guy to meticulously rotoscope things.

Fun fact: Jar Jar Binks was the first motion capture character, where they tried just about every method in the video before they settled on a combination. That’s also why there’s the meme’d “jar jar is the key to all this” because if they made him believable, others would wanna buy the services and learn how to do it themselves and they’d have been the first.

Then shortly after it was Gollum, but those were the first two high profile that got it into the business

AI is gonna be able to do this very soon

Hmm, just checked all options for this budget motion capture and I'm very disappointed. My main question is, how are VR googles so cheap, when you track the headset, and several controllers with perfect precision? It can do it for less than 1000 bucks, and you have a VR headset next to it? I would so much like some explanation.. thanks.

that was very cool thank you so much !!

Yeah that type of mocap, off course. But there are plenty more, and nothing will be more tedious than animating by hand. Cheers.

As someone who wants to learn and get into mocap where do I need to go to get started? Programs/ volunteer work ?

I really want to do this type of animation but I don’t know what apps to work with,what people to work with etc.

This helped a lot and wasn't super confusing.

I need my folks at work to watch this

I want to watch the whole interview

Expensive and complicated. Lot of effort, less result, better using the available and free BVH mocap from Bandai Namco, CMU, Second Life, Mixamo, The best tools are Autodesk Motion Builder, Blender, VROiD, and Cinema 4D as well.

sorry but i hate motion capture

i have recorded motion with my motion capture suite from xens , i saved it in fbx file also in obj file and mvn file , but i cannot get it into unreal engine in my selfmade character with cc4 , do i need blender to do this ?

The pain came back when I saw this videos name.

Hey there, is there a link to the full interview with the gentlemen at the end. Would love to hear the rest of the greenscreen story. Did they end up shooting with the fog on set or did they scrap it and do it in post after all.

I dont know how youd be able to greenscreen without artifact-ing if fog was introduced.

DMC3 used motion capture right?

We should use inverse kinematics and collision detection to prevent clipping.

What do you mean the barbie vlogs are mocap? 😮

Hmm...
Xens seems to be capable of doing really well. For me, it looks to be enough...cheaper and more flexible then any dots based set up.

How much does it cost I want it for vr chat

You can really tell how much he Loves what he does by how excited he still gets about talking about it

ok

My dad invented motion capture back in 1991… I can set up a call if you’re interested…

What was the first use of mocap?

If you could like do a spin and then do instant opposite spin - a kick or anything - and upload it with any animation being any superhero. It's impossible if you aren't trained. We tried to hide his flight trajectory.

Big thanks for covering this! I love the quality on Vox

Hello! I'm building a free-open-source markerless motion capture software (called 'freemocap'). I'm also a professor/research scientist who has used mocap to study the neural control of human movement since 2007.

This is very interesting video with some slight inaccuracies - Would you (@Vox) mind if I did a kind a 'review' of this video on Twitch? It would be a great opportunity for me to do a bit of a brain dump on a lot thoughts I'd like to share about the past, present, and future of motion capture technology :D

The ultimate motion capture task would be to record a band playing a song, complete with motion, face capture, etc.

At last, a mini doc I can make people watch to get them to realise what a stupendous art form ALL animation is. CG based animation is still like building a cathedral, just like drawn and stop motion. There. Is. No. Animate. Button.
Now lets's have a whole series on this subject, a whole mini-doc on rigging, on texturing and cloth, and on how you actually animate with graph editors. Then the skill, craft and genius might be appreciated.

POV you use VIVE trackers for mocap and have to deal with god foresaken velcro straps

Thanks Vox. It's time for people to understand that the animators are as responsible as the actors (if not more sometimes) for a character performance.

For those people in the MOCAP industry, if the inertial sensors you are using are 100x more accurate than what they currently use for existing motion capture suits (i.e. they use "consumer grade" inertial sensors mostly, similar to what you have in your smart phone), wouldnt that help solve the main problems of using inertial sensors mounted directly to the body?

Who are you interviewing in the video?-- no mention of the person commenting(?).

For being harder than it looks, motion capture is highly successful.

The space editorial sounds like it was a nightmare. Though well compensated for living through- a nightmare none the less

White guy dancing

motion capture...

Thank you for this! Super cool video! A+++

Muito bom!!!

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Motion capture very expensive

nice watch, i have the same one :-)