8 Best Motion Capture Software

if you need to speed up your animation projects you probably need to start thinking about motion capture in today's video we're gonna show you eight of the best motion capture software for different needs and budgets including free ones as well starting out with Rococo Studio One of the most powerful and intuitive software for recording visualizing and exporting motion capture data the thing is Rococo's mochap tools can't be used without their software because their Hardware will only produce aeromocap data that needs to be sent through Coco Studio Advanced real-time algorithms in order to be processed so Rococo Studio works with their own Hardware such as the smartstreet pro the smart gloves and the face capture app but also supports third-party devices like the latest iPhone devices in addition to the Vive tracker and the perception neuron so show you can use your Rococo Studio to create realistic animations for your characters whether you need them for video games films VR or ar projects you can also stream your animation data in real time from the studio directly into blender and real engine Unity or Maya using the Rococo Studio live plugins by the way there is also a free version of the software which includes all the main features needed for benefiting from the power of their motion capture tools this means that you win and record the mocap data accessing cleaner filters 3D phone export into fbx and unlimited Cloud asset storage but you can also upgrade to Rococo Studio Plus or maybe Rococo Studio Pro for more features including the live stream feature for different 3D software and game engines you also have more export options or the ability to import and retarget custom characters on the other hand the smartsuit Pro 2 and the smart gloves cost around 1900 and 1400 respectively yet being the most affordable ones how strange jumping now to opti-track Motif the well-known motion capture software that aims to deliver the best performing real-time human and object tracking first of all enough force a Precision solver which is the brain algorithm that defines the skeleton movement of the tracked subjects very accurately I might add what's mind-blowing is that the system can track over 12 skeletons and 300 rigid bodies in real time with positional accuracies of 0.2 millimeter or less and rotational accuracy of 0.1 degree or less which is incredible let me be very clear this one here is obviously targeting professionals and Production Studios that work with motion capture data for their projects like video games movies and stuff so modu supports two marker Technologies active and passive meaning it allows you to track objects with retro reflective material or blinking LEDs and just like Rococo Studio it creatures real-time data streaming to a bunch of 3D platforms such as visual 3D and real engine unity and motion Builder when it comes to pricing it completely depends on the features you will need for example the basic version of motive allows for rigid body tracking and costs a thousand dollars for a Perpetual license and if you want to do body tracking you will have to pay motiv body at five thousand dollars which allows you to track and edit up to three life skeletons I would say this right here is only for studios and professionals as I said because it is really expensive and you can't afford as an average Joe but don't worry because we're gonna talk about affordable and free ones as well now let's talk about one of the most affordable milk app Services which is deep motion we actually made a detailed video about how deep motion works if you want to check it out but basically it is a cloud-based service that utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to extract through the animation from any input video the thing is it is really simple to use as you only need to upload your own video or find videos of actors performing certain actions that you might find interesting online and you can import your custom characters or choose from a variety of characters and settings to create your own animations which is interesting and you have later on the ability to customize resulting animations with features such as face and hand tracking physics simulations foot locking and motion smoothing for example you can also refine your results with the rotoscope pose editor which allows you to trace the motion of the 3D character over the original video this may makes it a very interesting tool that you can play around with for free or pay for a monthly subscription for commercial use starting at nine dollars per month which is not too bad move AI is also an AI based solution for motion capture allowing for 3D animation extraction from video inputs it is actually a robust system that has been tested out in direct comparison with other Optical and suit based systems which makes it gives accurate results it allows for single and multi-camera motion capture meaning that depending on the scene you want to capture you could either use a single iPhone camera or multiple iPhones no matter which model it is as long as it has the move AI app installed for example for capturing the performances of three subjects it is recommended to go with 6 devices around in the scene whereas for two actors it is recommended to use five devices Etc so the more devices you have the higher quality you're gonna get as for how to use it it is very simple to set up as described on their website and you will have to go through four pretty straightforward steps like setting up the cameras connect talking them doing calibration of the cameras and finally you can start capturing you can either export your motion data in various formats including fbx and import them into your favorite 3D software or game engine by the way it costs 365 dollars per year with 30 minutes of Animation every month or 6 hours for a 12 month period also an optical motion capture system that is based on AI is called reticle ironically radical is not so radical when it comes to pricing since it is an affordable alternative compared to the solutions we talked about earlier it's Cloud processing and very simple workflow boils down to recording and uploading your video footage and they process it and generate the animation data then it's gonna be visualized when you are satisfied with the results you can export it as fbx but you have to know that the only track motion for one individual at a time so please avoid having more than one character or one person in your video we also have Wonder Studio from Wonder Dynamics co-founded by Nikola tedrovic and Ty Sheridan I hope I didn't butcher these names too bad anyways you might know this Thai guy from the famous Blockbuster Ready Player one where he played the role of the protagonist so I wonder Studio offers a browser-based VFX Studio that not only does perform 3D animation extraction from a single camera footage but also automatically as the custom CG character with the corresponding animation and the right lighting for a nice blend with the video environment the process stored by motion capturing in order to generate the 3D character pass with a transparent background then it extracts the alpha mask of the actor in the video and it removes him from the scene after that it performs the camera tracking and blends everything together with some final adjustments in blender it renders out the result if you're wondering a light version comes with a 19 spice tag for a monthly subscription which includes 1080p exports 150 seconds passes in video and with a Pro Plan that you will have to pay for a hundred bucks per month you will get 4k exports and up to 600 seconds of video processing moving on to a whole new dimension to talk about motion capture for 2D animations we actually talked about this in multiple videos dedicated to cartoon animator on inspiration test 2D one of the most Innovative and creative software for 2D animators as it allows you to bring your characters to life really easily and what is most interesting about today's topic is that cartoon animator features motion life 2D which is a mocha platform that blends through the motion capture devices with 2D animations within this platform you can use various mocap gear such as webcams iPhones Leap Motion perception neuron Rococo and more to control your 2D characters visual Expressions body movements and hand gestures this makes this an interesting tool that lets you go from painstakingly Keen poses to easily capturing performances which is amazing if you ask me it seems illegal to be able to control a 2d character with just a camera capturing actors live performances so to try cartoon animator you can download the free version from their website and the mocha bundle including cartoon animator 5 license which costs 899 dollars as of making this video finally as prime minister here is the free motion capture solution which is known as the free motion project it is an open source project which aims to provide a free motion capture software accessible by anyone who needs to track human movements its goal is clear and simple but the project is still in its infancy and it is reliant on contributors and enthusiasts who are willing to help and make this project become even bigger as of right now in order to use this piece of software you need to follow some instructions on their GitHub page and install the necessary stuff it's a little bit technical but if you already have used python before it can be very basic stuff just run two commands for quick start and you are ready to go and play around with the UI by the way there is documentation that provides guidelines on how to use the software effectively and troubleshoot common issues also you can find multiple videos on the developer's YouTube channel if you are interested in this ambitious project so guys if you are interested in one of these software you will find all the necessary links in the description I 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Keywords: Best Motion Capture Software, Motion Capture Software, Rokoko Studio, OptiTrack Motive, DeepMotion Animate 3D, Move.ai, RADiCAL, Wonder Studio, Cartoon Animator 5, FreeMoCap

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 27 2023