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We now have motion capture tech!

Posted by Tanadrine-Studios - December 26th, 2013

However, I'll need time to get myself familiarized with all the functions, nuances and whatnot. For right now, I focused on testing facial tracking:

The system we're using is Lightwave's NevronMotion, which is a retargeting and motion capture addon. Nevron uses a single Kinect camera for tracking body and face movements... while this is considered a very low quality motion capture solution I feel it is still a worthy investment.

I'll be posting more tests on the NG blog as I wrap my head around all the tools and features; so far they are straightforward, but it is always a matter of getting to that point of zen where you don't have to pause and think while working.

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cartoonbacon 2013-12-27 00:38:54

That was really cool!

kkots 2013-12-27 03:56:29

That's like a good face exercise!

jecjoker 2013-12-27 08:10:42

That's great! And awesome for low quality! Though when you say the word Man watch their mouth movements, first on the left then on the right.

PoisonHeart 2013-12-27 09:02:21

awesome to see this uses kinect, very industrious! this look really good.

spacegod105 2013-12-27 10:24:22

nice!

Corpsecrank 2013-12-27 11:46:57

For the software including the plugin and a used kinect you might have 1400 USD into this. I would say the investment is more than worth it considering the results. If you are a hobbyist or on a budget this is the absolute best solution out there based on cost/performance.

Pretty cool stuff and if the kinect results in "shaky" motion you can clean that up before the final output is made. Adding motion blur to those segments may even be enough to hide that as well. They mentioned how you could touch up joint placement in the same way. I would imagine the more you use this and the more familiar you get with it the better things would look.

We now have motion capture tech!

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