We have been working more and more
with motion capture these past few weeks and I have learned to love and hate
it. Motion capture is great because you get fast accurate results. However, the
way that you edit this data can be messy. We use a software package called
Motion Builder. This program can read C3D data. C3D data is just the format in
which the motion capture cameras are recorded in. Now don’t get me wrong Motion
Builder is a very powerful tool, but I find it to be extremely glitchy. For
those interested what version, we use the 2011 32bit edition in class. Neither
here nor there we had to learn it and I’m happy I did because the technology is
only getting better and better. Having a background in this will only help if I
want to pursue motion capture in the future. But that being said, as of now I don’t
like it’s not my favorite thing in the world.
So, for our project we had to pick a well-known
movie scene with a significant amount of talking and moving around and re-tell
it using motion capture. To tell you the truth I think the hardest part was
finding a movie scene to use! I decided to use the movie Step Brothers, one
that almost every 90's kid has seen in our teen years. Here’s a link to what I
did with the original video in the bottom right corner. It’s not an exact
match, but its close. We only got two takes with the mocap actor. The class
only got him for 1 day so we all had to do our scenes that day. There are 24 of
us so it was a little rushed but it was still fun to get a taste of the fufill
process.
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