How To Do Motion Capture in Blender for Free

Today i'm going to show you how to do motion capture for free in Blender for free.

[@RedLabEffects]

By the way, if your trackers are failing and you're getting lots of errors, Just watch a few Blender tracking tutorials on KZbin

[@smarthalayla6397]

Dude, this tutorial is awsome. In les then 3 minutes you show how to motion capture. But, what happen if you 1- turn around. Will the animated character turn around also? 2- changing your face expression. Open your mouth. Sad face ti happy face and so on. 3- talk for auto lip-syncing. This exists in Adobe Character Animator. Any features for that in blenber?

[@RedLabEffects]

@smarthalayla Thank you! 1. No, that would take a lot more animation and work to do that. 2. Maybe, I haven't tried it yet. 3. No, maybe there is an addon out there that I don't know about.

[@smarthalayla6397]

@@RedLabEffects Thanks man ;)

[@RedLabEffects]

@@smarthalayla6397 your welcome

[@bedjgames13]

@@smarthalayla6397 isn't she a girl 😅😅😅

[@zenmasterorwhatever]

Amazing how now days kids are putting out more useful info to the amateur VFX community than anyone else seems willing or able to. This earned my sub! 👌

[@HappyDude1]

Yeah Its like they want you to pay for lessons 😂 because nobody shows how to do it

[@caydeisclutch2589]

​​@@HappyDude1 precisely. When a service becomes easier to accomplish and more people are doing it at a common knowledge basis, the less it becomes a "skill" for in-demand, high salary jobs. So, they narrow the field to only those with certifications. Less competition; higher salary for those who get the gigs. This can be said in almost any type of business, but it happens to be really noticeable in subjects like entertainment. Luckily, if you master this craft, you can still pull in a fortune doing it, certified or not. It just takes a good portfolio. 👍

[@HappyDude1]

@@caydeisclutch2589 Yes thats the complex explenation 😁 i also noticed that a lot of vfx becomes automated like even my phone can do amazing editing like tracking or cutting something out of a video or photo. Or creating greenscreen around something.... now with AI more things will become more easy This wil replace a lot jobs sadly In every sector

[@caydeisclutch2589]

@@HappyDude1 Absolutely. Fortunately, digital animation is an art that only gets better with technology, so it's not going to die out any time soon. As it stands, it's transcended typical trends and is here to stay; it could easily substitute the need to use any real-life being at all in the future, with databases full of pre captured content that allow any creation to be rigged to it. (Consider how years ago it was used to recreate Paul Walker in a "Fast and Furious" film after he had passed away). Not only this, but with automated tricks like floor locking, MoCap has the ability to be created in a single, small apartment sized room if you wanted. It's wild to imagine.

[@suckafreeglobetrotters1297]

Kids are becoming the only hope once again adults have failed us all

[@BigJMC]

This legend is single handily saving my uni project. Edit: my foolish self did not appropriately address this legend by the proper name, thus I have changed my comment.

[@NomeAlkai]

U did it🫡

[@bossmen6665]

then you should show some respect by addressing him as a "Legend"

[@BigJMC]

@@bossmen6665 done

[@PreachersKid420]

I’m not only impressed by the simple and easy to follow tutorial but by how young you are and producing this quality of content. Extremely impressive

[@ashishkarki9090]

Really respect and appreciate people like yourself who give their ti and expert knowledge so others can benefit and enjoy soft

[@RedLabEffects]

Thank you man

[@makeitlastmedia]

@@RedLabEffects let's go

[@stoatsnhoney]

This is amazing! I had a similar idea a year or two ago but your process is so much more streamlined! It gets surprisingly good results too. Definitely saves time when doing low-budget animation of any sort.

[@RedLabEffects]

Thank you

[@zacherydestael7890]

As a beginning VFX artist, this is amazing and the fact that you put it out for free is mind blowing (in a good way lol). Anyway, thank you so much for this video

[@JupiterMaroon]

Im so impressed. This tutorial is the fastest and most clear quick guide to motion tracking. Nice job!

[@chriscreate1150]

When he said “I got ya”, I knew this was the best tutorial. Thanks a lot! 🙏🔥

[@craigbaker6382]

Why have I not seen this technique presented before? I imagine there are shortcomings in some circumstances...but I have been researching mocap and "free" for a while now and , yes found solutions, but all much more muddy processes or reliant on some external site or AI you can plug on to. This awesome simplicity is a great starting point for animation. Thank you for reminding me that this very straightforward function is all that you need to employ to get some good human-feeling (or whatever your footage) movement. Disney animators essentially rotoscope real live action footage all the time.

[@lochuynh3888]

Thanks for explaining it really well! I've been putting off learning soft soft cuz it looks so intimidating but now that I easily understood the

[@EnergyIndy]

Fabulous presentation, instruction, and education. Superb format. Thanks young man & Godspeed in all of your endeavors!

[@YOMARTINPRODUCTIONS]

I'd say that these days kids are extremely talented at such a young age, which is true, but this takes me back 10 years ago when I was your age and I was also into some heavy tech stuff people would never guess it came from a pre teen. So yeah, never underestimate! Also great tutorial

[@brandonmanus]

killed it! fast, easy and learned something. KEEP MAKING CONTENT

[@feiibandesignstudio7172]

i have no idea why, but hearing your voice just makes feel soothed.

[@GregorMima]

That looks really nice.. Wasn't aware of blender being able to do this without special devices...

[@monopetergriffin]

This is a shockingly clear and easy to understand tutorial for how to get started with the basics of motion capture, thanks!! :D +1 Sub

[@beterax]

one of the most useful videos I saw for a while

[@waledaltorky2781]

At last something that works! you just earned a sub

[@onurbayana9142]

Thanks for the motivation. I wasn't sure if I could do it, but I might try it eventually.

[@kaokong7226]

kid, you are going places. keep at it!

[@mingz3434]

Highly respect your work on this vid. Really a treasure for the community, thank you! :D

[@yossefamr8392]

Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed videos! On to the soft!

[@shadowdemonaer]

You're so based man. People have got to be more like this. i love how much more willing people have been lately about sharing their secrets. Legitimately, thank you.

[@mariabr8954]

this is both admirable and adorable! Keep going! great tutorial

[@mustafajamal1768]

I could listen to Nice tutorialm talk for hours man what a passionate dude ❤️

[@angeldust1486]

this is the most concise information that i have ever seen in a video? like ever??

[@juanorobio7438]

clicked on. Very detailed and to the point, thank you so much for tNice tutorials! I subscribed and I look forward to watcNice tutorialng and learning more about

[@mikealbert728]

Nice. This can work fine when the movements stay along 2 axis but I suspect blender won't be able to figure out the depth from a static camera if you move a hand towards the camera for instance. Threedposetracker is free and works ok extracting human motion from monocular video if this technique fails for anyone. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@midnightcircus74]

This is a simple and effective way of going about this, really smart.

[@RedLabEffects]

Thanks

[@Danger_N00dle]

That's a pretty cool trick Thanks!

[@orztecker4785]

You deserve youtube award of the year. TNice tutorials video truly nails it! Very well explained... The way you cut the bullsNice tutorialt and get straight to it..

[@RedLabEffects]

Thank you so much!

[@crypt0sFX]

Clever work around. Nice video!

[@mranimation2939]

I'm Subscribing Bro This Was Awesome

[@konrrax2694]

I can't believe literally no one is talking about how satisfying Nice tutorials voice softs.

[@ungars9937]

Bet your soft is absolutely amazing! Never give up

[@jimmyt_1988]

Awesome! I had no idea! I'll give that a try right now!

[@RenzeLuo]

I've been working on this technology lately and the method used by blender is possibly mean-shift algorithm. It does not require high-performance graphics cards, but the result is still not satisfying enough as what most Deeplearning models can produce. By using mean-shift you'll first need to go through a long process to get the raw data, then you'll have a large set of parameters to adjust. So check out those new AI-based motion trackers. I think they can help u with your furthur projects.

[@realjames3istaken]

this kid is going to go places fantastic tutorial

[@tamaraevans7956]

bro thanks so much, you actually made soft soft easy to understand

[@myst1cull]

Great work, thank you for educating me and not filling the video with junk :)

[@tapikoBlends]

wow, it is the most useful and simplest tutorial i have found today

[@CHgameschanel]

Amazing! Keep it up brother

[@dusza7692]

found actually helpful for people started from scratch

[@Thomas_Lo]

Nicely done. Taking on Default Cube / CG Matter? Or... *mystery chime* Ian Hubert? Keep em tutorials comming.

[@mszczesnik]

That's a good trick. If Blender adds solving multiple cameras, it would actually be a proper motion capture solution (that's not trivial though).

[@dhonifakhriza4936]

Thank u so much, interested in starting so soft during quarintine and just need a place to get started, thx for the support

[@RedLabEffects]

Your welcome

[@LOC-Ness]

good to know this method does work with the whole body!

[@prinzpablo527]

No way this is real. Bro you've just helped millions of people save money. Bro thank you

[@sasori720]

If this was star wars, you would be a force sensitive padawan candidate. This video is extremely well done for your age.

[@MrJatt-ov6eg]

Best tutorial ive evr seen bro ur d best!!!!!

[@EduardoOliveira-rh4nd]

Awesome, great video!

[@cezi4204]

TNice tutorials is the best tutorial. Simply explained to a newbie, great job man.

[@YumeBasil]

I love how cartoony the characters look lol, this is getting me back into modelling

[@pablor3138]

Amazing kid, you have a bright future ahead of you.

[@Catherine-lr3ul]

This is AMAZING thank you so much!!!! I really wanted to do something like this but didn't want to use AI. This makes so much sense, I appreciate you so much big up 🎉

[@chewlsyy]

Saw that ur comment is recent.. may i know how exactly I need to click to start tracking? I found myself clueless after 00:47 . I have no idea how does it manage to track with the blue-red line. Appreciate for your answer. Thank you in advance.

[@monicabellu9566]

This is really useful and well explained, thank you very much! Subscribing!

[@Ahtisham]

dude you are amazing, I will try that sometime

[@Palestine_234]

Thank you so much for all these tutorials bro. So much valuable knowledge

[@RedLabEffects]

Thank you!

[@vegtaprince]

Dude this was an awesome workflow. Did you come up with it by yourself? Amazing!

[@BryonLape]

Interesting. Gonna have to try it.

[@JuJu-he8ck]

wow you are soo cool man. young kid out here making moves.

[@MarcoValeKaz]

Dude, you're the best!

[@arthura.8836]

damn little bro! you going places!

[@ARTOR123RETURNS]

Great job! Keep it up :)

[@gnomesniffer3892]

as a beginner, and a person who doesnt thumb up videos, i learned alot and liked the vid

[@tommycouser656]

Thanks, this will make walking animations easy

[@CrookedBear]

As someone who was recently inspired to creat an indi video game with motion capture this was so helpful

[@PhoenixMario]

Nice tutorial! I subscribed!

[@the_stray_cat]

wow your vid is actualy really clear. gg man

[@AlexParkYT]

Absolute genius although I gotta probably rewatch it 100 more times for me to follow lol

[@abdullahali-md9sn]

i think we have the next MKBHD here! Fantastic presentation and quality content!

[@pockydew9467]

Super useful, thanks my dude :D

[@STEVENAUDIOPRODUCTIONS]

A very useful lesson for all aspiring softians

[@clubspy5114]

this kid single handedly saved my short film

[@hoangphuongphuyen2705]

Thankyou for actually explaining tNice tutorialngs. Other videos that I watched started talking about how to make soft and didn't ntion anytNice tutorialng

[@blenderconch]

Clever idea! :)

[@yanovsky62360]

by any ans, but I can make what I envision, and that's the greatest gift to . You are, without a doubt, an expert teacher. You may

[@sakeebfaruque6828]

SUPERB....TUTORIAL, WELL DONE.....EASY TO LEARN :)

[@thomasmaier7053]

Nice one, way better than all the videos wanting to promote their AI websites!

[@unknown90000]

that helps a lot thanks 😭🙏🏻❤️

[@SuperKidsSquad]

well done buddy and thank you

[@swapniljagtap7139]

🔥🔥 That's awesome

[@Jordo95]

Good shit, thanks homie.

[@romattigk]

Super well explained, short and quick all the important information 👍👽🌞

[@leonpijudo6875]

Amazing !! Thanks!!

[@AatxeUrrutia-ph9ty]

Nice vid, thanks!

[@NotJustAnotherWizard]

You rock. Thank you so much!

[@GLITCHYSKY228]

This is really great! But how would you go about doing a more 3d approach, instead of 2d facing forward?

[@Think_Klear]

in the details. when you get stuck, roll back to the beginning and start over. The other weay is to focus entirely on one set of commands

[@kyochan876]

Your lesson helped a lot, after that i wrote my first lody. Thank you very much.

[@RedLabEffects]

Your welcome!

[@maxwell9211]

I have a masters in digital media and animation and a 12 year old has taught me more than any of my tenured professors

[@cakosh2570]

Thanks bro you deserve a sub :)

[@pedroviana142]

Thanks, really helped

[@Andre666W]

Nice tutorial Michael,

[@cat_106]

This kid will become succeed in the field of animation.😊

[@EyeMCreative]

I haven't tested this out, but for depth, you could set up a second camera to record the side angle for your reference, and then hand animate the z position of the points to match. You might be able to track them and somehow link the points together But that might be more difficult than just hand animating the depth to get as close as possible. But yeah, this seems like a really good method for some quick rough motion capture, especially if your character is just going to be in the background.

[@KidChemic]

Is there any documentation on this process? Multi-angle mocap in Blender would be perfect for a project I'm working on.

[@EyeMCreative]

@@KidChemic I'm not sure, but I would guess the easy way would be to use his method for the front angle. Then setup the side angle in orthographic view, create new empties for each point, and use auto-keyframing to roughly animate the empties to match the positions from the side view. Then use constraints to copy only that axis (Y?) of the tracked points to your depth points

[@EyeMCreative]

Not exactly the same but it reminds me of a Default Cube tutorial on 2D face tracking, but he projects the points onto the surface of a face mesh to get the depth

[@kabeltelevizio]

I don't know, this seems like far more work for a really choppy result than just modifying already existing mixamo anims.

[@kendarr]

It's really annoying, I tried, problem is, we have 2 arms, often one is out of frame, which results in a bad track, multi camera setups only seem to work where you have enough cameras that all points are visible to atleast 2 cameras

[@thefreh6888]

Thank you for this. You're a life saver

[@RedLabEffects]

Your welcome

[@sander-wit]

Great technique, thanks!

[@RedLabEffects]

Your welcome

[@GameDevGeeks]

I imagine if you can record from at least two different angles (front and side for example) youd get much better results (almost like optical mocap). nice vid