Tanadrine-Studios 2013-12-31 18:56:53 (Updated 2014-01-01 01:56:39)

Happy new year to you!

At least with this system, mocap isn't really for moving the character around a large space like what walk cycles would do... but rather getting a large volume of believable character motions produced in a fraction of the time it'd take for me to hand-key it. Say I have two characters talking to eachother (but not directly interacting) and I want them using their body and hands as they discuss or do something... if I'm hand-keying all of that, at maximum I output about 60 seconds of animation per character a day (working at least 8 hours on it). With the benefit of this motion capture system, that increases to about 4-6 minutes a day... possibly more depending on various factors. The cool thing here is that I can mix in the motion capture and hand-keyed stuff pretty seamlessly... it is just a matter of integrating it all fully into my workflow and finishing all the tests that need to be done. It is going to be a very, very interesting new year with these new weapons of production, that's for sure.

Also, to answer your question, I'd need a larger room to use a second camera meaningfully. Microsoft never created a solver for utilzing a second kinect camera, so multi-kinect functionality can only work in a "post-processing" solution, which Nevron is not (it's a real-time solution). The LW devs have expressed great interest in the upcoming Kinect 2 and other possible options for expanding the kinds of cameras and whatnot, but those are bleeding edge developments.

Tanadrine-Studios 2014-01-01 14:01:20

Same to you! 2014 is going to be a year of big change.