Nov 19
2010

Microsoft Kinect Becomes Motion Capture Tool


posted by Aaron

I’m firmly against motion capture as a replacement for key-frame-based animation, but it’s quite evident that motion-capture will open up animation to a whole new group of potential animators. Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille have patched together this DIY, real-time, motion-capture tool using Microsot Kinect. Pretty amazing stuff:

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3 Responses to “Microsoft Kinect Becomes Motion Capture Tool”

  1. 1 Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect « VFX Sverige Says on November 21st, 2010 at 7:42 am

    [...] Microsoft Kinect Becomes Motion Capture Tool [...]

  2. 2 Tom Graham Says on November 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am

    That is freaking awesome!!!!!
    Does this create standard motion capture data?

  3. 3 Swedes Connect Kinect to Flash | Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links Says on September 8th, 2011 at 6:56 am

    [...] year, we saw some clever folks turn the Xbox Kinect game device into a motion capture tool. Now, the Swedish team at X-Com are using connect along with [...]

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