I spent my life savings on a motion capture suit. Do I regret it?

[@StudioGalt]

Excellent video! two thing I would add, you can build tools to compensate for weakness of any motion capture system. Two if you are use a suit, try to record them as video as well, this should be pretty cheap, and lets test newer video algorithms!

[@MikeCroswell]

Wonderful video! Looking forward to the facial mocap, which I have also been looking at recently via Live Capture (yes, it still works.) Thanks for all the hard work comparing these systems.

[@JamieDunbar]

Thanks Mike. I'm looking forward to it as well. There's some paid tools that will help give better results, but I'm really excited because I've finally found a completely free workflow :D

[@dmigul]

Thank you for covering this topic. There is a specific task in which AI is still inferior to suits - when you need to capture close interaction between two or more characters. From all the alternatives Rokoko suits seem to be the most affordable.

[@JamieDunbar]

Actually it’s a bit unfortunate I didn’t try tracking multiple people at once. Would have been interesting to see if the quality dropped or not. The Rokoko suit is definitely one of the cheapest. If you’re looking to get one, maybe also give the Perception Neuron a look. Pretty sure they’re of similar price. Of course, I obviously have a bias towards Rokoko 😜

[@CGDive]

Awesome breakdown, Jamie. I'd love to be able to just turn on a camera and record mocap. AI is great and getting better but not quite there yet.

[@JamieDunbar]

I’m pretty confident it’ll eventually get there, but no, not there yet. That said, MoveAI has a more advanced system that gives amazing results. It requires a bunch of cameras and the cost ends up being very similar to a suit. But the results also seem to be very similar.

[@chodosz]

Very informative, thank you!

[@narathipthisso4969]

Great tutorial 🎉🎉 I want to know about Quick magic VS Move AI . Thank you 🙏

[@MediaWayUKLtd]

Thanks for doing this video test Jamie! Very interesting! My only comment is that you're wearing black, with black gloves, so you're probably making it quite difficult for a vision based mocap system to do a good job.

[@JamieDunbar]

Yeah fair point. I tested the gloves by themselves, but not with the suit. Individually they worked quite well, but the combination of black on black May have thrown the results out a bit.

[@ZeeZeeBun]

Wow... One of the few uses of AI I actually agree with.. Nice.

[@noxxiisproject2075]

Hello there, have you tried Cascadeur for this matter as well?

[@JamieDunbar]

No I haven’t. From what I understand it sounds like mocap and Cascadeur would go hand in hand together. Have you used Cascadeur? What’s been your impression?

[@noxxiisproject2075]

Personally, I am using quick magic for the motion and Cascadeur for the cleanup

[@noxxiisproject2075]

Though, not religiously as I am still learning the ropes of Cascadeur.

[@JamieDunbar]

Oh that’s a solid idea. I imagine Cascadeur would be able to clean up a lot of those small errors. Probably a good way to bridge the gap between AI and a suit.

[@creativecityis]

what software do you use? (blender, maya, unreal)

[@JamieDunbar]

Blender most of the time these days. Although I had about eight years experience in Maya before I moved across.

[@creativecityis]

@@JamieDunbar ohhh so do I. if you did a blender mocap video I would be stoked. the idea we can control the digital reality with our own body movements blows my mind!

[@JamieDunbar]

@@creativecityis I actually did some videos a couple of years ago on mocap in Blender. It's a little old now, but aside from some UI changes everything should all work. The playlist is here: kzbin.info/aero/PL7OrVqZRumXAJ-qCZJseyUGNdQ0zIY4P3

[@myourmother]

수트가 낫다

[@WCCOMPUTERGRAPHICS]

sO SAVING MONEY FOR A SUIT

[@JamieDunbar]

It’s a big investment. But over the last two years I’d say mine has paid for itself 10 times over.