Quite some time ago I thought I had posted about the motion
capture equipment. Today I logged on to blogger to find I forget to publish it
and I lost the post I intended to make last week. This is what I tried to post
last week.
Today we started our motion capture assessment 1 which is being
incorporated into our production. Steve and I got to wear the suit to test out
the sensors, software and hardware. It is great fun. So far the way we have
been working has been recommended by Jon the motion capture teacher at JMC. Jon
recommends a shot break down sheet where we list all required shots for the
production. This provides good organisation and I find make’s sure that an
individual or group don’t forget any shots or props required. Steve did a great
job with this basic one. We had to do this outside of regular JMC class time
but that’s life.
A number of our shots involved the boy Liam with a toy gun.
So we added tracking markers with electric tape to a toy gun of
our own.
In the software we set up these points so that they would be recognized as a separate object. So far no issues have been found and the
markers were tracked with no issues.
At this point in time I don’t feel I can give a full self-analysis
of the motion capture until I get a rigged and skinned character moving in a
scene. However I do feel that there is one thing that I would like to say. If I
could do anything different it is that I would not use a small room. Having a
small room gives the motion capture actor a limited amount of room to move.
This limits the potential of the quality of animation. For e.g. if you have to
have a scene where a character has to walk 7 meters and you only have 5 meters
of acting space to do so it’s actually quite impossible to achieve quality. I
believe jmc are aware of this and are considering moving the equipment to the
auditorium. I want to help push this decision to move the equipment so that the
quality of our motion capture is to its best.
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