Applying Motion Capture in Computer Animation Education

A Brief History of Motion Capture for Computer Character Animation

Motion capture is the recording of human body movement (or other movement) for immediate or delayed analysis and playback. The information captured can be as general as the simple position of the body in space or as complex as the deformations of the face and muscle masses. Motion capture for computer character animation involves the mapping of human motion onto the motion of a computer charact...

Enhancing Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data

An Animation Interface Designed for Motion Capture

We present an animation interface designed to conveniently control the motion capture process. The transition of performer's hand gestures tracked by a dataglove is recognized for software remote control. An intuitive camera metaphor allows to specify the viewpoint location using the magnetic sensors strapped on the performer’s head. The human motion capture is based on the Anatomical Converter...

Motion Capture Animation for Physical Model Analysis

This paper presents a motion capture technique applied to animation, in order to analyze physical models. A low cost motion capture environment has been built, which is validated through a case study. An experiment is described, showing the main steps to be performed using the motion capture technique. Finally the generated animations are used to analyze physical models in a virtual three dimen...

Character Animation from Motion Capture Data