Now you have a full and extensive list of actions you want to capture, it’s time to assemble them in to some sort of order. One of the best ways to do this, if you haven’t already been doing so, is to enter them in to a spreadsheet. Begin simply by creating a column containing…
How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Capture Considerations
Another aspect of an action you will need to consider is how you’re actually going to capture it. Thinking about this now can help save valuable time during the capture session and minimise the amount of editing work required afterwards. You may not have the answers to all the following questions at this early stage…
How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Move Requirements
Once you have written the first draft of your list there are a number of technical and artistic requirements you need to consider about each action before you capture any motion. Review each action and add as much detail as possible to it. Ask yourself ‘if I had to explain to someone how to perform…
How to plan a Motion Capture Shoot – Creating a Move List
As I stated in one of my earlier post, planning is the key to avoiding pain, misery and expensive mistakes when beginning any motion capture project. I thought now might be a good time to write a few posts to try and explain the types of things you should be thinking about at the start…
Quick Start Guide to Motion Capture
In this post I hope to provide you with a very broad overview of the motion capture processes from beginning to end. I’ve tired to cover many of thing you will need to think about at each stage of the process in the order I usually approach a new project. Hopefully this will help you understand the work…
What is Motion Capture?
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. 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…