What is Motion Capture in your own words.
Motion Capture is a motion machine to describe the actions in digital tasks. It is easy to catch the actions and just use actors to completed all actions, and this machine not only use in body, also use with fingers and face.

Why do we use it? When do we use it over hand animating (cell animation)?
It is easy to describe actions, and make the actions realistic. When we thought the actions are hard to do in 2D and 3D, and sometimes the actions need more details.

Who is Eadweard Muybridge, what does he have to do with motion capture?
Muybridge’s approach was to use several cameras rigged to take successive pictures to capture human and animal subjects in motion.

Who is Etienne-Jules Marey what is the connection with Zoetrope & Rotoscoping?
Marey Marey’ ’s technique included using a special s technique included using a special camera which allowed several exposures camera which allowed several exposures to be captured on a glass plate and on to be captured on a glass plate and on strips of film that could be passed through strips of film that could be passed through his camera automatically (similar to a his camera automatically (similar to a video camera).

What is another name for Zoetrope?
zoogyroscope

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