Not a bad idea considering the costs of either buying/renting motion capture equipment or 'booking' a business to do it for you. What's funny is that Poser's initial idea was to take that real posable mannequin and put it into a computer so you didn't need the real thing. But it would be much faster for posing, what you suggest. For stills, I think two or three orthographic photos of a posed subject would work for most situations (except where dynamics of movement disallow 'posing'). My question, from some robotics experience, is how much would it cost to sensor a human mannequin? There are over 60 joints in the body (can't seem to find a definite figure here) including phalanges and not including the spinal column. Some of these joints are ball-and-socket joints which have a free range of motion - the best that I can think of is a joystick that would be needed for these (shoulders and hips). Others are pivot joints that twist. There are seven types of joint on the body. There would definitely need to be some sort of calibration to put the mannequin into a 'zero-pose' that matches the destination figure's before going about your business. Just playing devil's advocate and making you consider those sorted details (because my boss is in them). >;)

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