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Read Character Trailer assignment, this is what I need to see......

• Week 4 Friday - Chosen Clip & Character Preparation
• Shown and signed off by Veronica
  
• The 1 minute video clip chosen for your assignment
• The character and scene ready for motion capture (modeled, textured, rigged, exported)

• Week 5 Friday -  The motion list
• Shown and signed off by Veronica 
• uploaded to jivi                                      File Name -    SID - Ass1Task2Beta.pdf
  
• A list of animation motions you have to capture for this assessment
•  You all need to bring 1 prop into class that comes from your animation
• Here is a list if you don't have a clip yet
• Card board box
• toy gun
• toy sword
• Umbrella
• Toy doll
• Microphone
• Remote control
• Hat

2524_Tutorial _Week3

Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

1.Organic system is use 14 cream under the inf-red lights to get the action, the motion capture must wear the suit then can get the action.
2. Organic system is easy to get action. the motion capture is different need get the heavy suit then can get the acation.
3.OS easy to broken and cannot to the acation like sit,but motion capture can get the acation like sit.
4.OS ‘s can do more comples than MC,because the MC need a wire.actor cannot move a lot
5.OS’s is easier to operate than MC in system.

1.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages
1.easy to get action
2.get the data fast
3.can do action more flexible
4.need not wear the heavy motion capture suit.
5.so interesting
Disadvantages
1.need more place to put 14 creams
2.can’t do the action quickly
3.can’t squat, or something like that
4.cant get the details of action
5.if you wear white clothe, the effect maybe good enough.

2890 - Tutorial Week 3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prothetic motion capture suit.

1.The prothetic system requirs user to wear the suit, but in organic system, user doesn't need to wear anything.
2.The prothetic system can record small movement sush as the fingers. But Organic system can not.
3.They based on different ideaolody.
4.They use different software to record.
5.They use different initialize position.


2. Explain in your own words, 5 adcantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system.

Advantages
1. No suit requirsed. The actor can do difficult movements because there are no cables.
2. More accurate. It's new technolegy so it can capture motion perfectly.
3. The recording softwares are good.
4. Ealiy to use. Saves a lot of times.
5. The record can be used in most of the popular softwares.
Disadvantages
1. It can't capture details such as fingers movements.
2. There are some blind spots in the system.
3. It's expensive!
4. The actor cannot do some certaine positions because they will cause the system breaken.
5. It's based on infrared so some material may make the system mistake.

2644 - Tutorial week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

The prosthetic motion caputre suit do not need special place to put, it is very portable. The organic system need special place to put and work.

When people use the prosthetic motion to capture the movement objects, it does not require the line of sight, but the organic must require this and it has distance limit.

The organic system does not restrict the actor's movement, the actor can do anything in its range freely. Prosthetic motion restricts the actor's move.

The prosthetic motion use suit to capture the movement and wires to convey the data, The organic system use 14 cameras to capture the movement.

The organic system cannot move or touch its cameras, it will has some mistake on motion capture, The prosthetic system just cannot be destroy the boxes and lines on suit, when you move them, it capture the motion as well.


2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Advantages
The Organic Motion does not restrict the actor's movement.
The Organic Motion has low lag.
It is very easy to get in the model.
It can reflect the movement on computer quickly and accurately.
It does not need many wires and heavy machines to capture the motion.

Disadvantages
Need special place to put and capture motion.
It cannot capture 2 or more actor's movement at the same time.
It cannot capture details of the action.
It cannot caputre fast and intense action.
It requires more than one camera to capture motion and cannot move the cameras.

2715 - Tutorial week 3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

* You don’t have to take time to wear the prosthetic motion capture suit for recording the animation at the organic system. You just need to go into the camera zone and start to animate.
* The character’s open action and close action are difference between these two system.
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Open action- T position;
Organic Motion system: Open action - T position, extend position.....
Close action - bend the body
* Space limitation.
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Because of the wire has the length so the actor can’t move a lot and he just got a little space to move.
Organic Motion system: There is quite a large space for the actor to move when he is animating. The actor movement space is in the camera zone.
* Camera
Prosthetic motion capture suit: It doesn’t need to set the camera to catch the actor’s action except the head suit for catching facial
Organic Motion system: there are 14 cameras to catch the actor’s action from different direction.
* Facial Catching
Prosthetic motion capture suit: Using the only one camera at the head suit to record the facial from the actor.
Organic Motion system:Using the little dot sticker on the actor’s face to catch the facial action.

2. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Advantages:
* easy to animation with the character
* easy to move around at the camera zone
* have more space to animate for jumping and dancing
* take a little time to animate the movement for the character
* the actor feel more comfortable instead on wearing a heavy suit to doing different action

Disadvantage:
* it can’t have 2 or more characters to animate at the same time
* the actor can’t bend the body
* if the actor’s hand close to the head, it will can’t catch the actor’s movement and it is easy to the close action
* The actor can’t close to the cameras for animating because the system can’t catch the action
* The actor can’t doing the action too fast because the system can’t catch and record it.

2890 - Tutorial Week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Using motion capture we can easily get huge information of realistic human movement in a very short time. Hand made animation have to do a lot of work to achieve that effort.

2. Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
* Explain details and use keywords
gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.

Step1 Move the motion capture suit out.
Step2 Move the chest part form the model and put it on the actor. Make the frame banded on the actor tightly.
Step3 Install the arm part, the leg part.
Step4 When the wearing is all finshed. Check the distance between frames and human, make sure it's two fingers.
Step5 Adjust the suit, make sure it's symmetry.
Step6 Plug the censers to the gyroscope.
Step7 When the connect is down. Turn on the power.
Step8 Open the test software, see if all the censers are working perfect.
Step9 Open the X-recorder, record the motion.
Step10 Open 3DSmax 4, Open the xrc file and transfer it in to src.
Step11 Open the src file and export as bip.
Step12 Done.

3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Bad: Cable! Cable! Cable!
Heavy! Heavy! Heavy!
Good: It can captures motion.

4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

You can jump, roll, fly, double back-flip in the new system.

2802 Tutorial Week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
1.we do not need to wear the heavy suit.
2.The organic system has more cameras than the prosthetic motion capture suit.
3.There is a limit area for the organic system but the prosthetic motion capture suit only has the line limit and it can be add the length.
4.It is more easy to do the jumping action in the organic system but for the prosthetic motion capture suit is too hard.
5.In the organic system the actor can not do the close action otherwise it will crash but the prosthetic motion capture suit can do that.




2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages:
1.It is easy to recording the action.
2.For any size of the actor
3.It is save time
4.No wire limit.
5.Do not to wear suit.

Disadvantages:
1.If too close to the camera that you can be recorded.
2.It is easy to crash if you do some close action.
3.If you do not have hire or the hire is too long that you the organic motion system can not catch the actor.
4.The lighting is uncomfortable if you stay for a long time inside the room.
5.Must wear a pair of the sock.

2749 - Tutorial Week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
Answer:
1. the organic system is light and convenient.
2. compering with the prosthetic system, it is able to catch any open motion on your character.
3. the organic system can not catch cloth properly.
4. the light of the camera is harmful to eyes
5. the actor do not move with the heavy suits

2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Answer:
Advantage:
1.light
2.convenience
3.not limited when character move
4.not require wearing wired cloth
5.the data can be transfered in motion builder

disadvantage:
1.hard to catch close the motion
2.the camera requests the very clean environment
3.can not recognize over one people motion at the some time.
4.the camera is harmful to eyes
5.the area is too small.

2890 - Tutorial Week 1

1. Explain in your own words, What is motion capture?

Motion capture is the technique to capture movement and transfer it to data so people can use it to other objects in computer.

2. Explain in your own words, What is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion Capture

They share the same ideology that make movement into frames and then get information from it.
Zoe-Trope and rotoscope just simply play the frames rapidly and based on that people now using motion capture.

3. Explain Inertial motion capture system

A inertial motion capture system is basically a suit that have censers inside it. When people wearing it, the censers record the movement of human body so computer can capture it real time.

2930 Tutorial Week 3

Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit
1.Organic system don't need to wear a suit, prosthetic have to.
2.Prosthetic suit use sensors to capture motions, Organic system use 14 cameras to capture.
3.different softwares.
4.organic system is using fixed space, prosthetic suit is more flexble.
5.Prosthetic suit is limited on actor's body type, organic system don't have body type limit.

Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages:
1.don't need to wear suit
2.No wire or cable connect to actor, so less danger.
3.Any body type person can be the actor.
4.Save times
5.Actor can move freely.

Disvantages:
1.fixed space
2.can't capture facial express.
3.can't wear white clothes.
4.need power needed for system(ex. cameras)
5.actor's hairstyle.

2837-Tutorial week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit


1)Organic system doesn't need to wear suit
2)Organic system has more cameras
3)Allowing every person to be sized and tracked
4)More freedom
5)Organic system has limited action area


2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system
Advantages:
1)Freedom
2)Allow everyone to play
3)new technology, more correct
4)more control
5)easy to set up

Disadvantages:
1)Not portable
2)Only one person allowed in the action area
3)Can't catch the close movement
4)If the cameras change the position, the whole system should change
5)expensive

2885 - Tutorial week 3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit.

• For the prosthetic motion capture actor needs to wear suit, which is prosthetic motion capture suit, however in organic system, it uses cameras from different angle to capture the movement of the actor without wearing any suit.
• For the prosthetic motion capture suit, the actor is going to perform inside the area where the cables are long enough to reach, however, in organic system, the actor is going to perform inside a restricted area where it's under the cameras.
• Organic system uses 14 cameras to capture, real time and no markers.
• Prosthetic motion capture is able to capture the facial expression by placing the markers on the actor's face, while organic can't just capture the facial expression by the cameras themselves.
• it's easier for the actor to do acting under organic system as they dont need to carry to heavy suits at the same time worrying about they will break.
  

2.Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system.

ADVANTAGE:

• save actor's energy.
• easier for moving.
• easier to set up.
• less pressure while acting.(breaking of the suit)
• more accurate.

DISADVANTAGE:

• can move too fast.
• the bonds will be broke while toughing the body.
• can't get more than one character to perform at the same time.
• restricted area only.
• can't capture the facial expression.
  

2524-Tutorial week 2

.1.Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Motion capture is easy and fast to use .It can follow and collect the real action. And it can make the 3Dcharacter ‘s action become smoother. It can save more time than hand keyframe to do it..And it can do the better work than the hand keyframe.

2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.

• Explain details and use keywords
• gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.

1.Carefully take the motion capture from the model ,acator get already at the same time

2.Take the head part and put it on the acator’s head. After that, adjust the size to make the acator feel better.

3.Take the body suit and put it on the acator.and one person need to holding the top suit in the middle .another person to buckle the belt and adjust the high degree and elastic

4.Put the leg sensor on acator, and buckle all belt.

5.Put the foot sensor to acator, and make the line fasten.

6.Plug in all the cable

7.Using the screwdriver to adjust the department links.

8.Double check all the cable and department links.and ask the actor ‘s feeling

9.Turn on comptuer and turn on X-ist box

10.Tell the acator don’t do any acatin turn on gyro and wait the light flicker 3 times

11.Tell the acator to do easy acation .to make sure the light flicker when the acator move everytime.

12.Open a Vipermaster model .record the acator ‘s data.

13.Save the documents to xrc

14.Open the xrc to use 3Dmanx.

15.Last save it as csm

3.Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Good experience:

The new system is so magical.I am so interesting about it.Useing it can do animation easily.

Bad experience.

It so difficult to wear it. It looks like so heavy. And it need the acator have a normal figure. That need to adjust many thing .It is so boring.

4.What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

Maybe it can become lightly .and can do and can do complicated acation.

2921-tutorial week 1

1.Explain in your own words,what is motion capture.

Motion capture is the process of recording real people's movement and translate them into the character's movement in animation or game.

2. Explain in your own words, what is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion-capture .

They are all the technique of making animation.zoe-trope is making the illusion by rotating the cylinder while the image is the real material.

Rotoscope and Motion-capture are much more similar they are all used to simulate the real people's movement.while Rotoscope simulating by tracing them and motion-capture is by using the electric equipments.


3.Assassins Creed 2 Motion Capture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxJrhnynlN8

3004 Tutorial Week3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

. Organic system working by 12 cameras and program, actor just need stand at the stage and do any actions he want.The prosthetic motion capture suit need actor wear a heavy suit and set up carefully before do the action.
. Organic System uses Motion Builder to adjust the positions and properties.Prosthet motion capture suit use wire.
.Organic System uses several cameras to record the action,the prosthetic motion capture suit uses the connection wire to record.
.The prosthetic motion capture suit is very easy to break up and need wear carfully and move slowly. Organic System is very convenice for actor to play around and do whatever he wants.
.Organic System got complicate set up steps , compare to this prosthetic motion capture suit doesnt have that much step.

1. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Advantages.
- Let actor have a wide stage to do action.
- Don`t need wear anything special suit, feel free to act.
- The movements effects is quite good.
- Many function to working on.
- Easy to get in models.
Disadvantages
- Lots of set up steps and complicate.
- Can`t figure out small action.
- Easy to break and need to start again
- No good to wear something too white
- Need special trainning for processing this program.

2921- tutorial Wk 2

1.
motion capture is a kind of system that can record people's movement in the joint and bones in which case can make the movement in the animation more realistic we use motion capture rather than doing keyframe animation because motion capture can record what exactly the movement is and it is more convenient.

2.

<1>put on suit for actor.
<2>hold the gyro box in case of u broke the cable.
<3>ajust the suit in right size
<4>turn on the computer and the system
<5>turn on the x-ist box
<6>turn on the gyro
<7>let the actor keep still and wait the signal blink till 3rd time so it is ready to capture.
<8>record motion
<9>save the motion as xrc file.
<10>convert xrc file into csm file.


3.motion capture system is amazing because it can record the motion smoothly and exactly.but it is too easy to broke the cables inside by rotating the machine.


4.i think the new system can be improved by making the equipment solid and portable.

3004 Tutorial Week1

1. Explain in your own words,what is motion capture.
motion capture used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement on to a digital model.
2. Explain in your own words, what is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion-capture .
They are all used in the film. The motion capture is the newest technical, and then is derive from the Zoetrope and Rotoscope. They are the process of animation technique.

3.

Monster House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gM-ehF_fw4

Monster House (2006) Company:DJ

Release Date:14 September 2006 (Australia)

3004 Tutorial week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Motion capture is a convenient system for people working on 3D games and films. It is much better and professinal tool than the hand/normal keyframe. 2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
-Put the suit on the actor.

-hold on the gyro box connected wires to the cables.

-adjust the suit size for actor.

-Turn on the system in computer, than turn the X-ist box receiver on.

-Turn on X-ist box and switch on the suit and check to make sure it works

-Check body,fingers and feet cabel and adjusting

-Initialize

-Recording

-Importing animations in 3Ds max and loa on biped models.

3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Good:Can do 3d animation more easier and a funky way.

Bad: Capture equipment is too heavy for the actor and cant move free when do the animation.

4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system? Hopelly no need to wear a special suit and can move and do the action easier.

3255-Tutorial Week3

1.Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

 

    1.prosthetic  motion capture suit requires to configure body part movement to achieve precise movement, which organic system is a lot more easier by standing in 3 postures, and programs will calculate your body  data automatically

    2. prosthetic motion capture needs actor to put on suit and adjust gyro, wire, cables and so on accessories, it is a long and complex process and suit is heavy and has limitation of movement. which in the OM capture system, actor only needs to stand in the studio, under the inf-red lights and 14 cameras, most work done in the programs of operation computer, actor can be more flexible and concentrate on performances.

   3. prosthetic motion can make facial motion happens, but OM capture system does not includes this function which we could only do morphers in 3dmax to make it happens.

   4. all the prosthetic must be not broken, otherwise will not capture the movement properly, and once it breaks, it will influences on the animation a lot. which OM capture does not exist this problem at all

   5.  prosthetic motion used the older programs and requires the Windows Me to operates, which OM capture system requires new programs that works synchronize with 3dmax or the other newest programs and operation computers, which is being popularize in game and movie industry. 

 

2. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

 

5 advantages:

 

     flexible performances

     precisely calculate the human body movements

     less limitation on the programs and operation computers

     fast data transformation

     easier setup and smoother results 

5 disadvantages:

     

     not be able to capture the facial motion

     expensive set up systems

     techniques requires on the set up

     actor can not wear anything too white

     actor has to stand in the middle of the square room where all the 14 cameras cam catch him or her from different angles at the same time.

    

      

2921- tutorial Wk 3

1.
<1>organic system is capture the movement by camera while prosthetic system is capture the movement by really equipment that is set on our body.


<2>organic system is more updated while prosthetic system is like out of date.


<3>organic system is not as portable as prosthetic system.


<4>organic system gives more convenient but it is lack of quality because some of the motion can't be captured well compared to prosthetic motion capture system.


<5>there is an area limitation in the organic system doing recording compared to prosthetic system.



2.

advantages

<1>easy for people doing movement

<2>recording are more realistic

<3>time saving

<4>people can do more movement without wearing heavy suit.

<5>equipments are solid.

disadvantages

<1>need more room for the equipment

<2>area limitation.

<3>expensive to setup the equipment.

<4>spend much time on camera setup.

<5>can't do facial capture.

3847 tutorial week3

Differences between the prosthetic and organic mocap suit:

1) The suit. the prosthetic one still needs a suit on the actor, a heavy and bulky one at that. For the organic system, no extra equipment whatsoever is needed on the actor.

2) The way the 2 systems record data. the prosthetic system uses a wire connecting the computer to the suit. the organic system uses infrared light cameras in a white space.

3) the potential space within which the actor can move. the prosthetic suit actor can walk around as far as the length of the recording cable. the organic actor needs to stay within the white space and the vision range of the infrared cameras.

4) the potential range of open motions that the actor can do. the prosthetic suit actor, due to the suit's bulky and somewhat fragile nature, and also due to the recording cable, is limited in in his possible motions. the organic actor, with no attachments whatsoever, is a lot more agile.

5) the potential range of closed motions that the actor can do. the prosthetic suit, as it tracks the joints and limbs directly, allows things like crouching, sitting, and generally holding one's limbs close to herself. for the organic system, the same motions will register as a big black ball instead of a person, and may not be recorded correctly.



organic mocap system
advantages:

1) No bulky suit to wear out the actor and limit his movements.
2) Software-side, easier to set up. Just a basic rigged model, straight out of 3dsmax, then import to MotionBuilder.
3) Hardware-side, also easier to set up. As opposed to the suit that needs to be put on and removed with each use, the infrared cameras only need to be set up once and can be used repeatedly from then on.
4) No limits on the kind of people who can use the system. As opposed to the prosthetic suit that needs someone more or less as big as the suit itself, the organic system can be used by people of all ages and body types.
5) Malfunctions from broken wires and such due to being used by actors are impossible. As opposed to natural wear and tear on the prosthetic suit's wires, the only way an actor could break the organic system's physical setup is by deliberately kicking the floor cameras. In other words, the organic setup will last longer.

disadvantages:
1) Due to silhouette tracking and not joint tracking, closed movements that meld the limbs into the body may not be tracked properly.
2) Related to the limb confusion problem, smaller movements like fingers and toes may also not register properly.
3) Limited to the space and location of the camera setup; a small white box in the lab.
4) There's still some restriction to the actor's outfit. the system's cameras may still be confused by bright clothes that can make the actor blend with the white background of the camera set, and free-flowing hair or clothes or other loose bits that change the actor's silhouette.
5) There's still some restriction to the actor's movements. Particularly fast or random movements can still confuse the system. Plus, don't kick the cloth walls or floor cameras by mistake!

3097 -Tutorial Week3

1 - prosthetic system have titanium for control some movement but organic system have only camera for capture motion.
- prosthetic is limited position for moving it's can't moving by immidietly but organic system don't have anything on the body.
- organic system must be use the room and camera for record but porsthetic use cable.
- prosthetic use the old program for setup
- prosthetic can not capture the face

2. adv
- organic system is depend on your body moving whatever your body moving can be record.
- don't have some titanium on body
- can't capture face motion.
- so fast for setup
- funny

dis
- expensive for setup system
- so many stuff for setup
- need the room and camera for set up
- use many people for working
- program for capture is complecadidt

2917 - Tutorial week 3

1.

1. In prosthetic motion capture the actor must wear the suit before doing an action while organic motion capture doesn't.
2. In theory, prosthetic motion capture has more precise than organic motion capture. (AIT's prosthetic suit is just very old)
3. Prosthetic motion capture use the attach things to determine movement/rotation of the actor while organic use the different of color(from camera) to calculate the action.
4. In organic motion capture, the actor need to perform inside the specific area. But for prosthetic, there is no line of sight limit.
5. Prosthetic motion capture is portable.

2.

Advantages

1. Does not require the actor to wear a suit.
2. Actor can do lots of action because there is no 'annoying' exoskeleton part.
3. Work best for CRAZY action.
4. Easy to maintenance.
5. Fun to play with
   

Disadvantages

1. Not portable
2. Imprecise for some action which cause a bulky silhouette.(e.g. kneel down)
3. Actor must perform in specific area.
4. Complicated setup part.
   
5. Can't do detail capture(facial-expression etc.)
   

2668_Jenny_Tut 3

1. Explain in your own words, 5 differences between the organic system and the prosthetic motion capture suit

* Prosthetic motion Capture uses a long cable that connects to the sensor box on the suit and transfer the data through that cable, where Organic System doesn't have the long cable but a number of cameras to capture the light source that reflected from the actor.

* Actors that uses a prosthetic motion capture needs to wear a motion capture suit, but in Organic system you are able to capture movements just by wearing your own cloth. the camera which has a dozen of red lights would capture the light sources straight from the reflections on the actor.

* Because Organic System doesn't have a suit that limits the actors movement and worrying abour breaking the suit , it allows the actor to have bigger movement and testing out different movement. ect, rolling on floor, jumping, flipping, and various of tricks.

* Different program is applied to prosthetic and Organic. Prosthetic uses applicartions like Vuppetmaster to adjust the positions and proportions. Organic System uses Motion Builder which has a wilder range of functioning, testing and a set of sources/tutorials we could use, also easier to control.


* Actors who acts in Organic system has to be in a zone that's covered by red lights. If the actor is out of the zone, the movement would not be captured. Actors who acts in Prosthetic can go anywhere as long as the cable is long enough to reach.

1. Explain in your own words, 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of the Organic Motion system

Adv:
1. Not much limitations in movements.
2. Capturing reflecting lights quite accurately.
3. Quick and easy to set up. Saves time and it's real-time.
4. More options in functionalities.
5. Easier to capture detail movements. Very smooth and adds a great level of realism.

Dis:
1. Actor has to remain in the camera zone.
2. Expensive to purchase the entire system
3. Can't wear anything too white or it won't capture the reflection.
4. Cannot capture details in facial expression.
5. Well trained technician is needed to process the system.

2802-Tutorial Week 2

1.Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

It is very hand to use hand animation to animate a good stuff. especially when the animation has the facial expression.But motion capture can do this thing in a easy way.That means to use motion capture can save a lot of time and doing the good work.

2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.


Put the suit on:
1.Take the model with the suit to a big place very carefully
2.Ask the actor stand well.
3.Take the head suit and put it on to the actor's head and adjust the titanium that it can according to the actor's head.
3.One people need to holding the top suit during wearing time.After wear the top suit then we need to tie the belt, which is in front of the actor's chest.
4.Tying the belt to actor's hand.
5.Adjust the arm holder in the tight position.
6.Connect the titanium in the suit.
7. Connect the cables between the leg suit and the X-ist box.

Adjust:
1.Using the Screwdriver to adjust the screw that the actor can well comfortable.
2.Keeping two fingers space from the body by using the screwdriver.
3.Use the safety pin to connect the titanium between the head suit and body suit.


Configure:
Turn the process box bottom on and wait for 3 flash times which means collect to the data and ready to work.Then turn on the x-ist Box.


Test:
Open the VipperMaster program. after that to ask the actor do some action to test.


Direct& Record:
Ask the actor to to some stuffs you want.But during the action time need one more people to look care of the actor and the wireless.Then open the recorder program to record at least 3times.


Convert export and import motion capture suit & data.:
From ".xrc" file to "csm",then to the ".bi"file by using the 3dx.


3.Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Good experience:
I can tell to use motion capture suit will be very fun and easy to work with the animation. it can catch a lot of detail by use this suit and system.
Bad experience:
The motion capture suit really take a long time to wear. And for the actor is very hard to wear this suit for a long time to act ,to animate because its weight.

4.What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?
What i expect is , we can do some action with heavy suit but still can catch lots of details.

2749-Tutorial week 2

1.Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?
Answer: the motion capture is really like the skin of the actor, so we use that, we don`t need to be worry whether the action is physics or not. It makes the work efficiency.

2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
·Explain details and use keywords
·gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests
Answer: 1.Take care the gyro any time when you put suit on your charactor.
2.The belt of suit have to be fixed to you actor,but it can`t restrict actor too much
3.Adjust the length of titanium for actor moving,and the sliding
4.Keep two fingers distences between the body part and potentiometer
5.Link the cable in the right way
6.Turn on the X-ist then turn the cable
7.Ask the actor move the finger and foot for test
8.Ask the actor do three mode action for initializing in the computer
9.record the data of the action in the xrc file
10.tanslate the xrc file into the csm and the bip file in the 3dsmax


3.Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.
Answer:
Good experience is that we know the whole process of motion capture, and know how to use the computer collect the data of motion capture, and take advantage of those data for animation.
Bad experience is that the prosthetic system is too heavy to do acttion confortable, and any part of the system is brittle.

4.What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?
Answer：I expect the motion capture is easy to use, much light, covinience.

2917 - Tutorial week 2

1. Because by using motion capture, we can do more realistic animation than the manual way(of course! it trace the reallife movement!) and it can save us lots of lots of time.

2.

1. bring the model out and put 1 person to take care the model
2. put off the body part from the model and make sure to put 1 person to hold gyro things on the back because it's quite heavy and to be safe.
3. Put on the body part to actor, tight up the belt and make the length of titanium to suit actor. When everything are set then the person who holding gyro can let it go.
4. Do the similar process for the bottom part, tight the belt(not too tight! always ask actor!) adjust titanium etc.
5. Put on the foot sensor to actor, easy and straightforward.
6. Adjust the suit using special screwdriver. Make everypart 2 male finger away from actor.
7. plug-in all the cable
8. turn on computer, turn on x-ist box.
9. turn on gyro. tell the actor to stay still around 1 minute until the gyro's light flashing 3 times.
10. If we do it right, when actor moving, the gyro light should be up.
11. open program to do initialize(forgot the name -_- )
12. do some adjustment before initialize....thumb figure....mode 1....etc.
13. tell the actor that we're going to do initialize. He/she must do thumb pose then click on initialize.
14. adjust the precision to make digital model as close as actor pose.
15. open recording program(also forgot the name :D )
16. click on record button, type in file name, when actor ready to act then click open.
17. file will be saved as xrc format.
18. open 3DS max 4 to convert xrc to csm format
19. from now, any version of 3dsMax can read csm format in biped section then convert into bip format....done!!

3. Good things...

• 6d mouse is fun

Bad things...

• very old suit and has a lot of broken things
• imprecise data from the actor
• long procedure before start recording

4. More precise, less limitation, more cool user interface, easier to put it on the actor.

2917 - Tutorial week 1

1. motion capture is the process to trace movement from actor and then translate into digital data. The data can be used to animate 2D or 3D charactor so we don't have to animate it manually.

2. They're all used to make an animation but in different mechanic.
Zoetrope use a spin cylinder to make an illusion of movement.
Rotoscope is a technique to trace reallife movement for using in animation. This is more closer to motioncapture because both trace the realife movement.

3.


Resident Evil 5 , Capcom , 2009

The video shown making process of video game "Resident Evil 5".
They used motion capture in everything in the game, gameplay actions, cinematics.
And I just know that they actually use actor's voice as real character in game!!

Video included some advanced process such as
real time capture - which can display the character movement real time in game.
virtual camera - which can control camera they want and without manually move the camera in 3D program!


4. Acoustic motion capture is one of the motion capture system which has audio transmitters on the body. Each transmitter will make a sound and they will know the distance between each transmitter by using the time that each sound travel then project into 3D plane.

3847 tutorial week 2

1) A good time to use motion capture instead of manual keyframe animation is when there is

a need for realistic human movements, especially more physically complex ones like dances

or stunts; animations that use equally realistic humanoid (aka two legs, two arms)

characters benefit from this. Especially now that the option is there, it will suddenly

seem like a long process to replicate human movements with keyframe animation, with a

bigger chance of getting it wrong.

Of course, not using motion capture is still an option for works that require more unusual

movements or don't require absolute pinpoint realism; works with cartoony or strangely

proportioned characters, for example, may actually benefit more from not being restricted

to realistic humanoid movements.


2) putting the suit on (needs at least more 2 people in addition to the actor wearing the

suit):

one person holds the upper suit (chest and arms) by the computer backpack or Gyro on the

actor's back, while the second person straps on the chest, outer upper arm (just above the

elbow), and hand segments. same process for the lower suit (waist and legs); one person

holds the Gyro backpack to the actor's back waist while the other straps on the belt,

outer upper leg (on the side above the knee), and feet. separate undersole sensors to be

attached to plugs on the respective left or right ankles of the suit. unscrew and slide

the headpiece bigger or smaller to fit the actor's head.

slide the titanium bars (the silver prosthetic arms and legs to which the motion-sensing

Potentiometers and their connecting wires are attached) up and down to adjust to the

actor's leg and arm length. also some sliding parts held down by screw bolts at the

shoulders and waist, beside the gyro boxes; unscrew and slide in or out to set the round

black Pots at the shoulders and waist to the correct distance from the actor, about 2

fingers distance. check with the actor to make sure he can move his limbs freely, and that

the suit's not too tight.

Computer cables to be attached; one from the headpiece to the upper gyro box, one from the

upper box to the lower right box, and one more from the lower right box to the lower left

box. also the much longer computer cable to be attached from the lower right box to the

white X-ist box under the computer terminal collecting the mocap data.

Instruct the actor to remain still, then switch on: the computer first, then the X-ist

box, then lastly the switch on the mocap suit itself, on the lower right box. Watch the

red LED lights; one stays on, the other will slow blink on and off 2 or 3 times, then stay

off. when tapped, this LED will blink on and off along with the tapping, and the actor's

movements, showing that the system has been turned on.

On the computer, open a Vipermaster model, then ask the actor to move; the model should

start moving along with the actor.

Open the X-ist recorder program on the computer. the director gives the actor his

instructions, and the computer tech begins recording. make at least 3 recordings, save the

resulting .xrc files with the student number, action, and take number as the filename.

The .xrc files may be imported into 3dsMax. convert the files into a .csm file. open a new

file, create a biped, import the .csm file then save as a .bi file.

3) that's a lot of wires, nuts, and bolts that the prosthetic suit is made of. other than

the length of time it took to set it up, it also seemed quite bulky and limiting in its

range of movement, both from the weight of the suit and the apparent fragileness; i

imagine it's a lot like wearing a mascot costume.

4) from what i've heard of the organic mocap system, what i'm looking forward to the most

is the actor's ability to just go nuts; nothing heavy or fragile to worry about, both the

actor and the director will be free to concentrate on the animation.

2715- Tutorial Week 2

1.Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Using hand animation is really hard to show the facial expression racily. Even you record a person facial expression and body movement into the computer, it is still really hard to animate as normal key frame at any programme. However, recording these detail movement and import them as data into the computer at the same time that will be more easy and ideographic.

2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.


Put the suit on:
1. Move the model with the model to a large space.
2. (put the suit from the top to the bottom)Loose the titanium from the head suit which connect between body and head. Then put the head suit to the actor’s head.
3.Focus on the actor’s chest and put the top suit on the actor. Place the two arm holder in tight position and put the hand belt on actor’s hand and warp the tape around and make them tight.
When the actor was put the top suit, one people hand to holding the back potentiometer with the suit.
4.Put the foot sensor right under actor's feet and Put leg suit in right position and belt it tight, warp the tape cross around with the foot suit. connect the wires between foot suit and leg suit.
When the actor was put the leg suit, one people hand to holding the back potentiometer with the suit.
5.Connect the titanium between leg suit and body suit
6. Connect the cables between the leg suit and the X-ist box.


Adjust:
1. Using the spanner the adjust the back screw and make sure those screws are symmetry.
2. Adjust the top suit and the leg suit that should be distance from actor’s body two finger space.
3. Using the gyro to fix up the titanium at the head suit and body suit. the gyro at the head suit should adjust outwards and the the other one should adjust inwards.


Configure:
Turn on the process box bottom and wait for the machine collect the data. It will flash 3 times to ready to work.(1st collecting the info from the suit and testing the induction point, 2nd send the data to the computer, 3rd combine both 2 points.)Lastly, turn on the x-ist Box.


Test:
Opening the VipperMaster to test the model on the computer and ask actor do some action figuring the body, hands, head and foot test.

Direct& Record:
Tell the actor what action you him to do. Open the X-ist recorder and press play and build a new folderl and rename the file name as your student number.
at least record 3 times for each action

Convert export and import motion capture suit & data.:
what you record at X-ist recorder is a “.xrc” file, you have to open the 3ds max 4 to converse those fil into “csm” file and import them into the biped. Then you save them as the “.bi” file.

3.Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Good experience:
It is really easy to catch the movement from the actor as data and import to the computer. After personal experience putting the suit to the actor, it makes me has more interest about MoCap and I am really exciting about what i can do for my model.

Bad experience :It takes time to put the suit on the actor and the suit make the actor really uncomfortable. when suiting the MoCap, it might hurt people because the titanium.The cables length has limit and it is heavy so that the actor is hard to have a rest.

4.What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

I expect to see the system can be more easy to wear and more movable. The actor can do more action like bending the body and the hands can do more action.

2885 - Tutorial week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?
Because Motion Capture will be able to catch more smoothly and nature movement than hand keyframe animations; and also reduced the cost for keyframe animations.


2. Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
(Explain details and use keywords gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.)
1. get more than 3 people to help with puting the suit on because it is a bit heavy and any careless is dangerous, and it is easily to break the suit without people holding it while someone else is try to tight things up.
2. then upper body part first, the belt need to be tied around actor's chest while one guy's holding the gyro at the back.
3. adjust the length of the titanium while set up the suit around the elbows. the actor need to wear might need to wear long sleeve shirt to make sure it will be tight and not clutch the actor.
4. put the waist parts on and put the foot sensor behind actor's shoes and tight it with actor's feet.
5. adjust the potentionmeter and keep it 2 finger wide away from the actor's body.
6. connect the cables before turning on anything.
7. turn the x-ist box on.
8. turn on gyro.
9. keep the actor to stay still for half a minute and base on the light knowing that it is ready to capture.
10. record the movement as xrc (x-ist record file-maybe).
11. convert the .xrc file into csm and then .bip file using 3ds max 4.


3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.
Goods:
1. seeing how the animation been done by just moving around doing actions.
2. seeing the animation while making the movement.
3. the suit looks awesome.

Bads:
1. taking too long to set it up.
2. taking too long to take it off....the actor can't just go to have drink or go to toilet.
3. have to be careful cant really do any action.
4. too heavy to carry.
5. some movement like while the actor is trying to touch his face, it never captured the right thing.

4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?
1. lighter.
2. easier.
3. faster.
4. smarter.

2644 - Tutorial week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Motion capture is the fast and convenient advanced system in the world when people doing films or games. It is more perfect than the hand/normal keyframe animations doing of motion to describe objects, especially in 3D animations.

2. Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.

(1)Need 3 or 4 people to help the actor to put the suit on.

(2)When put on the suit, we need some one to hold on the gyro box, than use wires connected to the cables.

(3)According to the different actors to adjust the suit size.

(4)Turn on the system in computer, than turn the X-ist box receiver on.

(5)Using 6D mouse to put the avatar model on a suitable position on the screen, make sure all system has a good cooperation and the actor ready to move and record the motion.

(6)Before record, we should make a file to save them, press enter and click initialize, make a new file and rename, than click open to record.

(7)When the actor move, they’re some people should help the actor move and how to move.

(8)After record the motion, convert them into csm file in 3Ds max and then the file should be saved as src file.

(9)Importing those animations in 3Ds max, than load in them on bip format on biped models.

3. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.

Good: Easier to capture the motion of objects and the movement data will be reflected quickly on computer in 3D space. It can better enhance the cooperation between people.

Bad: Capture equipment is too heavy for the actor and wires also limits the range and activities of the actors.

More detailed action can not reflect on the system, there are some limited action on the instrument itself and it also easy to damage.

4. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

I think the new system will be more convenient when we use it and it can capture more detail actions of the objects perfectly. I am so exciting to see the new system~

2930 Tutorial week 2

1.because motion capture is more natural and more detail movement than hand keyframe and it save sometime when doing more complex movement.

2.
1.place feet pad.
2.put the head part above eyebrow.
3.wear upper part of suit tie the string, make sure tie well. ask actor to bend the elbow to measure the position to tie the strings for arms.
4.wear lower part of suit ,the actor also needs to bend the knee to measure the position, tie the strings of legs and feet.
5.connect the titanium of head and lower part on the back.
6.adjust potentiometer, 2 fingers wide from the actor's body.
7.connect all the wires and cables.
8.turn on computer.
9.turn on X-ist box.
10.turn on gyro.
11.open VuppetMaster.
12.Do body fingure foot test.
13.Do initialize.
14.Dirctor tell the actor what movement she/he should do.
15.Record the movement save as xrc file.
16.Use 3DS max 4 convert xrc to csm file and save as bip file.

3.Good experience
1.to see actor's movement on charactor immediatly
2.save a lot of time
3.the motion is smooth.
bad experience
1.wearing the suit is heavy, and a lot of steps need to do.
2.some pose for example touches head, can't not perform.

4.1.without the suit how the capture will perform.
2.more detail or accure motion capture.
3.more easy to use.

2837-Tutorial week 2

1.Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?
It's more convenient for people to animate the charactors and make the animation progress much easier.It is faster and saves time.

2.Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.

• Explain details and use keywords
• gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.

Step1. Put the suit on

Step2. Connect the cables

Step3. Adjust the suit

Step4.Connect the wires

Step5.Turn on the X-ist box and turn on the switch on the suit and check to make sure it works

Step6. Body,fingers and feet testing and adjusting

Step7.Initialize

Step8.Record the motion and export as xrc format

Step9.Convert the xrc format to csm format

Step10.Import the csm to 3d max and convert csm to bip


3.Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system.
Good experience:
*Portable
*Quick set up

Bad experience:
*The wire is annoying
*The steel bar will kill people and can be bend easily
*Can't hold parts of body
*It is heavy
*Parts wear down quickly


4.What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?
New equipments,easy to operate with the new system, more space,new technology

3255 - Tutorial week 2

1.
motion capture is faster, and more physical interaction based realistic effect, also minimized the usual cost by key farmings.


using motion capture enable more tests and make the complex movement to the easiest way.

motion capture can save the large amount of data transformation work, in order to make producing progress effectively.

2.

Step1: Put on the upper body vest by fasten the belts of the chest piece, while lifting up the back gyro.then following by strap the elbow and hand parts and adjusting titanium length to fit the limb lengths.

Step2: then put on the lower part of the suit from waist to feet, ties up the both inside and outside straps on the waist. and adjusting titanium stick's lengths of both thigh and calf and tied up on knees and ankles with shoes piece beneath the feet.

Step3: we configured all those screwed on the back, two figures from shoulder, two figures from hipbone.we plugs the head control titanium to the back gyro, and the spine control titanium to the back gyro, then clips them all. afterward, plugs in all the cables in order to transfer data.

Step4: turn on Xis-box and the gyro, and make the model stand still to wait for the connection between system and gyro.

Step5: check out the functionality of the suit on body by look at the system light.

Step6: Before recording ,make sure model was there ready to initialize, adjusting the pressure of each parts in order to get a better animation by standing in thumb position.

Step7: save recording beforehand as .XRC format and convert that into .CSM in order for 3dmax higher version to load in.

Step8: in the 3dmax, in terms of importing those animation that u recorded by motion capture system, we load in .BIP format on biped models.


3.

Good experiences:

a very visualize class that helps us to remember the principles of how does mocap suits and system works.

unforgettable appropriate way of dressing and undressing mocap suit, with a better understanding of the operation of system.


Bad experiences:

some parts of the titanium stick was bend or not accurately recorded, so the resort of mocap animation are not good at all. 




4.


not need to put on any suit, hopefully could be more accurate rather than this old system. wish to see faster system are under running without that much of limitation and principles.

2668_Jenny_Tut Week 2

1. Explain in your own words, Why do we use motion capture instead of doing hand/normal keyframe animations?

Motion capture is the latest movement capturing technology that we could use.
The reason why we use it is because it is faster, and takes a lot quicker to create a proper 3d animation. Also adds an huge advantage by boosting the realism in movements, which draws the audience closer to the virtual world. By trying the newest motion capturing technology is a real fortune.

1. Explain in your own words,in 10 - 15 steps, how to put the suit on, adjust, configure, test, direct, record, convert, export and import motion capture suit & data.
• Explain details and use keywords
  

1) Putting the suit on
need 2-3 people's help to put the suit on. Firstly one person hold the back part up in the approx position, and another person adjust the chest holder and place right below acter's chest.
clip the belts onto chest holder, and adjust the length of the belt to suit actor's proportion.

Place the arm holder in right position and warp the velcro around actor's upper arm right above the elbow. and also put on the hand belt and warp around and make them tight.

take the middle part of the suit onto actor's waist. belt it around tight.

place leg holder in right position and belt it tight, warp the velcro around, and put the foot sensor right under actor's feet, and also warp around.

last you can put the head sensor on. then you can connect wires together between the 2 black boxed on the back o the suit.

2) Testing
ask the actor if everything seems to work with him, is he comfortable or is still needs to be adjust. . then ask him to move aorund see if the actor is comfortable.

3) Configuring suite, & system
configure the suit, adjust length of arms, legs....gyros must be around 2 fingers away from the actor. Turn the computer on, than turn the X-ist box receiver on.

4) 6D mouse
open an avatar model, use 6D mouse to move character around then try to fit character in screen.


5) Live system
get the actor to stand still for a minute, turn the sensor box on the back of the suit on, and ask the actor to be in an initialized position before start recording.
after making sure the suit corporates with the system, you can stat record.

6)Roles
In recording movements, there should be a director who directors the actor how to move and what to act. A technician is needed to manipulate the computer and the system.
And a actor assistant is also needed to help caring actor's suit cable/ wire in case actor trip themselves.

7)Recording
After confirming with every role, you can start to record. press record button to start, stop button to finish record.


8) Convert
The file would be saved as .src file.
You could convert them into .csm file while you converting in 3Ds max.

9) Import animation.
open 3D max, import max file.

• gyro, system, suit, titanium, potentiometer , wires, cables, X-ist box, initialize, xrc, csm, bip, body fingure foot tests.

1. Good and bad experience with the prosthetic motion capture suit/system?

Good: For the motion capture suite we currently got has been used for more than 10 years. the technology has grown so fast, and now we could record movements without using any suit but rely on light reflection via camera.
However it is good to know why the technology changed to redundant the problems and inconvenience in old tech, and how to use it in order to understand how motion cap works.


Bad: it is actually quite hard to use, and due to the suit has been broken and carries some broken parts where system could not sensor some parts of the body, it is very to keep the movement accurate...
it is heavy, the movement of the actor is limited, loads of movement is impossible to achieve with this suite back in 10 years.

1. What are you expecting to see different or interested in the new system?

I expect to see accurate, smooth movement. Recording movement without any suites or technical equipment does make it a lot easier. Movements should be almost unlimited. Adds a lot of spaces and limitations for the actor to do some special movements.
Expecting an excellent result form the new system : ) exciting !

3097-tut week2

1. Motion capture give a movement like a real movement because that copy from human movement then key frame in animation is the best key frame.
2.

suit - all of motion capture that on the actor body. Consist with capture item for record your moving, take the suit out from the model by carefully. take the head path first then take the arm path by unlock everywhere on the arm take breast path by use one person to hold the black box in the back and then another person unlock bolt from the front side then you can take all of the body out from the model and put to actor. the bottom part same method with up part.

titanium - like joint for moving same way with body.

wires - sent the data to from titanium to gyro

cables - bigger that wires sent data from gyro to X-ist box

gyro - Box on the back side for control and prepare the data of movement before sent to X-is box

system - when plugin cables already than open the system, wait the signal 3 time

body fingure foot tests - open program for check every is working fine or not if not fix that

initialize - set model to ready for record

xrc - the kind of file when record

csm - convert xrc to 3Ds max and save to csm for use with higher version

3. Good

- funny for learning a new thing.
- motion capture is interested didn't get boring

Bad

- the suit is look heavy

4. light weight and doesn't have titanium ^^"

2644 - Tutorial week 1

1.Explain in your own words,what is motion capture.
Setting tracker on Key parts of the object in motion (like human body) and the system captures the location of the tracking devices. Then get the three-dimensional coordinates of the data obtained by processed of computer. This data can be used in many different places like animation or games.

2.Explain in your own words, what is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion-capture.
Zoe-trope: It is the oldest technique of motion. Putting many static pictures into a device and then run the device, so that the object image generating the illusion of rapid movement.


Rotoscope: It always be use in animation technique, artist draws many pictures and put them one by one, frame by frame to show a continuous movement in animation. Operating principle is similar to Zoe-trope


Motion-capture: Using machine like camera to record a process of movement on key parts and translating that movement on to a digital model. Then use computer to reflect these movement data in the three-dimensional space. This technique is usually used on film video and game now.


3.Choose a Game or a Movie and explain/ show videos, their motion capturing process, company name, year, clip.
Avatar
2009
Studio: Lightstorm Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners
Distributed by 20th Century Fox


4.Magnetic
Advantage:
(1)It records the six-dimensional information that it can not only get space position, but also directional information obtained.
(2)Fast and when the performers show, the role models in the animation system can facilitate rehearsal, adjustment and modification.
(3)Calibration device is relatively simple, mature technology.
(4)Lower cost.

Disadvantages:
(1)The disadvantage is that it is demanding on the environment, the performance cannot have metal objects near the site, which will affect the accuracy.
(2)System allows the range of optical performance is small, especially cables will limit the activities of the performers.
(3)It does not apply to more intense activities and performances.