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General Catch-Up

A long string of health problems kept me away from pretty much everything I’ve wanted to do lately. Now that I’m finally feeling better, here’s a run-down of some things I’ve been working on. Creative Universe I put a lot of my film, video, and other art findings into a series of Milanote boards! ThisContinue reading “General Catch-Up”

The motion capture Jigsaw puzzle

There’s a lot of low-cost motion capture solutions that are available. Unfortunately, they’re not full coverage. The ones that I’ve seen include: Kinect and NI-Mate (see this video) – covers the areas shown in red, including the whole body, but not facial expressions or hands OpenMocap – uses existing VR hardware to get the fullContinue reading “The motion capture Jigsaw puzzle”

Prepping footage for motion tracking

Ian Hubert is the mad god of Blender. He’s put out some excellent videos, but the series that speaks to me is his “virtual set” stuff, including this video: “Whenever you’re shooting, try to make it an optimal situation”. He goes on to give advice on how to do this: Try to keep the shotContinue reading “Prepping footage for motion tracking”