Has long been replaced by in big productions. But it’s expensive and fairly inaccessible to indie productions and animators. Well, the Kinect revolution has come to change just that. Kinects’ skeletal tracking technology makes it perfect for motion capture.

There is now an awesome great character animation software made specifically for the kinect camera. It lets you make mocap or motion capture. Software Beta 2 Activation Crack here. Install Openvas Bsd. Truebones Mocap Software. Motion capture is widely used in big productions, but it’s expensive and inaccessible to animators. Well the Kinect Revolution has come to change just that.

That’s why there are an increasing number of startups and hacker projects developing motion capture solutions for animators. Be it a fully-fledged 3d mocap software, an “animation for dummies” app or a hackers open project there is a solution that will suit your needs and pockets.

Oh and did I mention that these solutions are suit less and marker less? Yea, I know you wanted to look like a Christmas tree, but you can’t have it all Faceshift is a face tracking software that uses the Microsoft Kinect instead of markers. It capture facial expressions quite amazingly. Just bring your FACS model, act it up and you are ready to go.

It’s still on open beta, but they’ll send you a 30 day trial version if you are nice, so go ahead TRY IT OUT! * It works with Maya, but they are planning to support other platforms as well. NI-MATE is a very powerful real-time 3d motion capture tool, I got a free beta release a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Its motion tracking capacities are fairly accurate.

I’ve use it for character animation and it has been a blessing cutting work by at least half. I still have to smooth thing out but that is true of all 3D motion capture solutions. All in all it’s a really amazing tool, sadly is not free anymore, but it is quite cheap running at € 198.80 for a single license. * The presenters motions are a bit stiff, it is not the program.. Ipi soft is a 3d motion capture software that works with depth cameras as well as webcams or regular cameras making it a really remarkable tool.

I haven’t tried it but it looks quite accurate and it’s easy to use. Running from $295 to $995 depending on the amount of cameras you want to support. * This ad was done by a user, not the company This cool app will help you to animate almost everything 2d using the Kinect camera as your tracking device. It has gesture recognition, lip-sync and a graphic library integrated making this a neat little app for everyone really. So next time someone asks you to do JibJab animations just tell them to get freakngenius.

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