1953_Week 8 Report
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Organic Motion Demo from tonyhightower on Vimeo.
Prosthetic motion capture system which our school has is a very old version system in the motion world, so we may have limitation on some of the motion. As the whole system is connected by a cable and there are two heavy boxes using for collecting data, on the back of the actor, some of the action such as turn around, quick complex moves, finger movement and some of the jumps.
So when we were listing our motion list, we consider that whether our motions fit the suit we just have now, are they easy to be captured by using that system. Then we departed all the motion as two part, one as very simple movement such as head up and hand hold the chin, this kind of movement only need one part of body to move, that means we can easily manually animate those motions rather than capturing by the prosthetic mocap system and clean or fix them. For instance, motion like fighting with each other, or using a broom to hit somebody, which contains the anticipation need us to know human how to move our body properly. We need to adjust the time correctly also following the principle of animation. To achieve that, the suit will help us a lot. That decision will save time for sure because we thought about the advantage and disadvantage of both capturing by the suit and animating by our hand. But in my opinion, by using prosthetic system, we can still learn a lot about human body. The process we clean up the data, fix the movement is a good practice.
Move on to the organic motion capture system. The benefit it will give us is it will let us do more. Because the technology developed a lot, it makes everything easier and quicker. We don’t need to spend 3 people around the actor just to put the suit on him/her and spend half an hour or even more to fix the connection problem and the angel between body to the box. It brings us more time to make other part better. I am seeking to touch that new system in the future. We don’t have to make our motion cheaper just because the suit can’t perform what we want. Forget about the limitation of the prosthetic, we can let our characters turn around 3 time, dancing with fantastic sleeping moon moreover they can play the piano. Secondly, it applies high accuracy of the motion it captured. Reality motion will make the character more realistic, it will impress more characteristic which is good and that is the main reason why we need motion capture. Like the example in the video, you can just make some effect in that system.
To sum up, we are so lucky to live in a world which has already got a huge amount of great technology. Motion capture system can be one of them. Organic system gives us a new way to make 3D animation, it expands our creation, and it makes our idea happen. Maybe there is something more crazy in the future, who knows.
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