Advantages and Disadvantages of Motion Capture

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Motion Capture
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Index

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Motion Capture
2. Advantages of Motion Capture
3. Disadvantages of Motion Capture
4. Movies and Games Use Motion Capture

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Advantages Disadvantages of Motion
Capture
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Motion Capture

• Motion Capture is most widely used in
  entertainment, sports, medical applications and
  computer vision validation.
• In some fields, it is referred to as motion
  tracking, but in games and filmmaking, it is
  called matchmaking.
• There are many advantages and disadvantages of
  motion capture.
• Motion capture is very different from a
  traditional computer animation of a 3D model.

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Advantages of Motion Capture

• 1. It gives immediate and real time results.
• 2. It reduces the overall cost of key frame-based
  animation in the entertainment industry.
• For example Hand Over.

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• 4. It allows many tests to be done with different
  styles or deliveries.
• 5. It is capable of recreating complex movement
  and realistic physical interactions in a
  physically accurate manner.
• These movements and interactions may include
  weight, secondary motions and exchange of forces.

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• 6. The amount of animation data that can be
  produced within a given time is very large when
  compared to traditional animation techniques.
• This contributes to both cost effectiveness and
  meeting production deadlines.
• 7. It can be used with a third party and free
  software, which makes it cost effective.

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Disadvantages of Motion Capture

• 1. It requires particular hardware and special
  software program to produce and process data.
• 2. The cost of software, equipment and personnel
  required can potentially be prohibitive for the
  small productions.

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• 3. The capture system may have particular
  requirements for the space it is operated in,
  depending on the camera field of view or magnetic
  distortion.
• 4. When problems occur, it is easier to reshoot
  the scene rather than trying to manipulate the
  data.
• Only a few systems allow real-time viewing of the
  data to decide if they take needs to be redone.

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• 5. The first results are limited to what can be
  performed within the capture volume without the
  extra editing of data.
• 6. The movement that does not follow the laws of
  physics cannot be captured.

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• 7. Traditional animation techniques, such as the
  added emphasis on anticipation and follow
  through, secondary motion or manipulating the
  shape of a character, as with squash and stretch
  animation techniques (12 Principle of Animation).

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• 8. If the computer model has the different
  proportions from the captured subject, artifacts
  may occur.
• Example If a cartoon character has large,
  over-sized hands, these may intersect the
  character's body if the human performer is not
  careful with the physical motion.

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Movies and Games Use Motion Capture

• Games
• Fife
• Uncharted
• The Last of Us
• Devil May Cry
• Movie
• Avatar
• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Polar Express
• Mars Needs Moms
• Pirates of the Caribbean

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