“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle… Wait, and also your motion capture suit!” It seems spooky yet it’s undeniable: artificial intelligence tools have been growing and evolving at breakneck speed. We can either despise new technology or see it as a helping hand. Let’s stick with the latter, shall we? Apart from creating artistic mood boards within minutes and enhancing concept ideas, neural networks can also massively simplify your previsualization and animation processes. How so, you ask? Let’s talk about motion capture with AI – a zero-cost way to start animating from scratch. If you have ever observed behind-the-scenes of any film using a CGI character then you are familiar with the concept of a tight black suit covering every inch of an actor’s body while they impersonate an imaginary Gollum, say. A motion capture suit helps to record human acting and to track body motion for further animation processes. Such hardware is incredibly expensive going up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Well, seems that there is another way now, which should put a fat check on this industry injustice. An example of the conventional motion capture suit. Behind-the-scenes from “Avatar: The Way of Water”. Image credit: the official Avatar Youtube channel, Century Studios. Quick and simple motion capture with AI What if you could capture motion at a fraction of the cost of traditional studios – no suits, using mobile phones and off-the-shelf cameras, and still get the same high-fidelity results? Move.ai claims to offer...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 22 March, 2023