Forum: Animation


Subject: Using a webcam for motion capture?

Laver2k opened this issue on Jan 16, 2004 ยท 3 posts


Laver2k posted Fri, 16 January 2004 at 5:32 PM

Im interested in using my webcam for motion capture, is this possible? i would like to be able to export flash from some sort of software, any ideas of what software can do this?


farang posted Mon, 19 January 2004 at 7:44 PM

Yes, there is visualmarker software. Hold on now, don't get excited. Visualmarker requires a minimum of two cameras. Also when using it you need to keyframe every single frame. Still, it is progress over what was avalable a few years ago which was nothing. Also, I have to believe that eventually Visualmarker could evolve into something that could catch all of us by surprise someday. One person who is pretty up on this stuff is Andygraph. Hope you find this helpful.


andygraph posted Sat, 24 January 2004 at 6:22 PM

Markdc have purchase the right about visualmarker 2.0 Maybe him want developed a automatic tracking software: "VisualMarker Tracker" and sold separately for VM. But markdc don't give info about it from many time ... i hope in a future for VM. About kaydara .. it's a motion editor and no mocap software!! Another way now available (the alone, maybe) about mocap software in automatic tracking mode is "SIMI mocap3D" http://www.zflomotion.com/software/mocap3d.html I don't know well the prize of it but i believe arround 8/12000.00 dollars If you contact the software house of SIMI post here the prize so will be usefull for another guys ... ;-) mocap hunter; Andygraph