Organic motion capture system is one type of the motion capture, motion capture can be defined as the process of recording movement from objects (can be human animals or any objects) and translating that movement on to a digital model, it is the modern technique used widely in different areas. In this essay, I will share my experience of using organic motion capture system to make my animation.


The requirement for my assessment is to create an 11 seconds animation by using the organic motion capture system, to start the project we have several sound track to choose as the sound effect for the animation. The basic concept for the animation will come from these sound tracks. I choose the sound “ Help Yourself ”. It is a dialogue between a mad woman and a man who wants to help her out and she sounds like impatient. I am going to make the animation for this woman and myself will be the actor in the motion captures room. The dialogue between them is:
W: “I am not protecting anybody but myself!”
M: “Now Mary we trying to help you.”
W:  “I am doing all right.”
M: “For how long? And we try help people like you, and there is nothing we can do unless you willing to help yourself.”

Through this dialogue, we can clearly see that the woman called Mary is desperate and rejecting help from other person. In this case, I need to design the body language for this woman through put myself in the situation to think what are the possibilities of actions when a woman get mad and anxious.
In the beginning of the dialogue, Mary shouts loudly and says “I am not protecting anybody but myself!” for people doing this normally will add some body language to emphasize the expression, therefore the actions for this scene is I will angrily pushing my hands downwards for denying then leaning forward and pointing at myself, the man says “now Mary we trying to help you!”. In that situation Mary was mad and I pretend that she wouldn’t listing to it so I will lift my hands and cover my ears, after the man finish talking, Mary shout out “ I am doing right” so I will angrily pushing my hands downwards again to reject the messages sent from the man and also stomp on the floor to show my anger.
At the last line, the man raises his voice and question Mary “for how long?  And we try help people like you”. In my perspective, when Mary heard “for how long?” her feeling will be touched and she will start to look back what happened to her so I will lift my arm up front of my chest making me look like thinking something, and suddenly she was been moved by “And we try help people like you” so I slowly put my hand down and look to my side. The man continue to talk to her but he change to a soft tone in order to persuade Mary “and there is nothing we can do unless you willing to help yourself.” So it is time that Mary reflected upon her mistakes, I will put my hand on my head and squad.

Organic motion capture is a system using several cameras from different angles to capture the object movements and then translate to digital data and use software to analyze the performers actual silhouette. During the time of using motion capture system to record animation, there is one thing people should be aware of , the open and close action. The open action means any actions that your body is stretch out for example, the T position. The close action means any actions have one part of your body too close or touched another part of your body, for example the cross hands action. If your animation has close actions which means you have to be careful because the system will get confuse for example if your hands are too close to each other and the system wouldn’t be able to identify which one is the left hand and which one is the right hand so both or one hand will spinning around. In my animation, I have some close actions like I put my hand on the head and squad, to do this action I have to keep the distance between my hands and my head just simply raise my arms in the recording and in process of cleaning I will move my hands toward my head, also use the user calibration is another effective way to minimize the errors occurs. 
Using computer software means there is always have problems occurs. After I finish recording, I need to do the cleaning process which means to make my animation perfected and more realistic, before I do the cleaning I should plot my character to control rig in order to clean the animation in the Autodesk Motion Builder, but after I finish cleaning I should plot the character to skeleton because I want to edit it in 3DS max now, and when I press the button plot, there is nothing happen. The software wouldn’t let me plot my character to skeleton, in this situation I took advice from Veronica and I add another character template into Motion Builder and just deleted it, after all these process my character is able to plot to skeleton now.
The experience of using organic motion capture is interesting and enjoyable. After this project, I understand lot more why 3d characters in games and movies they can act perfectly like a real person. Also I getting know about how to make a good animations and what a good animations need. A good animation not only that the character and move like a normal person but also need a perfect characteristic, to add characteristic into a 3d character is not easy, because there is not environment in the motion capture system, the great imagination and understanding of the character is necessary.