2/28 Video Mocap

This research seems cool, but like an awful lot of work. Obviously it's less work (and looks better) than key framing the whole animation, but there were just so many steps to it! Way more than the other research we've looked at, I think. I definitely don't think it's the best thing for all mocap situations, though it would be useful in situations where regular mocap is impossible. Things that are outside or need large, specific environments, for example. I was thinking maybe swimming. I only have a vague understanding of how regular mocap works, but I don't think it could really work to capture swimming, and obviously someone pretending to swim won't look right. If you had footage of someone swimming, this method might work. Also someone brought up mocapping specific people, such as athletes for their video games. I think this would definitely be a good option for that, since you don't need to bring in the person to physically act for you. Overall I think this method is interesting and useful for some specific situations, but for the most part I think standard mocap is probably better. Of course, I don't know exactly what goes into mocap, such as how you clean the data, etc.