1. What is Motion Capture in your own words.

Motion Capture is a kind of system that we movement in the real world and the system capture our movement put into the virtual world to make 3D animation, science fiction movies and games.

2. Why do we use it? When do we use it over hand animating (cell animation)?

Because of the Motion Capture can capture our movement is the real world to put into the virtual world and we don’t need use any software to make any movement frame by frame, especially some movement are very complex, if we make it by hand, we must be waste a lot of times and we can not make movement very prefact just like real.
We use it in the so many way, like film, 3D games, advertisement and some on.

3.Who is Eadweard Muybridge, what does he have to do with motion capture?

Eadweard Muybridge is an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known primarily for his important pioneering work on animal locomotion, with use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip that is used today.

4.Who is Etienne-Jules Marey what is the connection with Zoetrope & Rotoscoping?

Etienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist and chronophotographer.
He adopted and further developed animated photography into a separate field of chronophotography in the 1880s. His revolutionary idea was to record several phases of movement on one photographic surface. In 1890 he published a substantial volume entitled Le Vol des Oiseaux (The Flight of Birds), richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams. He also created stunningly precise sculptures of various flying birds.

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.

5. What is another name for Zoetrope?

“Wheel of the Life”.

6. Choose one topic by commenting on my post so others cannot do the same topic Research on the motion capture systems & processes

God of war is a action games, so it using a lot of motion capture for the characters, when you play this games, you can felt the characters every move even the characters’ facial expressions just like human being, I think that a one reason why this game is so great.