1. What is Motion Capture in your own words.
It is used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model.

2. Why do we use it? When do we use it over hand animating (cell animation)?
It is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical applications. In filmmaking it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2D or 3D computer animation.

3. Who is Eadweard Muybridge, what does he have to do with motion capture?
Eadweard Muybridge was 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. A zoetrope was a cylinder that spun with pictures inside that could be viewed through slits. A flip book is a small book with pictures on each page, which appear to move as the pages are flipped.
A rotoscope allows animators to trace over frames of live-action film. Due to the fluid motion of live-action frames, rotoscope technology brought the illusion of even greater fluidity with the animation.

5. What is another name for Zoetrope?
Zoogyroscope.

6. Choose one topic by commenting on my post so others cannot do the same topic Research on the motion capture systems & processes
An electromagnetic system involves a suit of magnetic sensors that receive signals from a magnetic transmitter. Each time they pick up a signal, they send their location information to the computer. "King Kong" used an optical system, which is simpler than either of these setups, at least for the actor in the suit. This optical system consists of a lightweight suit, a lot of reflective dots and about 70 motion-capture cameras that feed information into computers running 3-D motion-capture software. The motion-capture studio is a huge warehouse converted into a high-tech space with bare-bones sets and more cameras and computer equipment than you find in an electronics store. The sets are simple structures meant only to simulate the kind of terrain and props that the digital King Kong interacts with on the screen.