File puptcrit/puptcrit.0808, message 44


From: Widerman-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:26:12 EDT
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Low-tech motion capture?


You can view an excellent demo of how to track your fingers with a Wii  
system here on You Tube:
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU&feature=related_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU&feature=related) 
 
Also worth checking out are Johnny Chung Lee's other Wii hacking videos. I  
particularly enjoy the one for 3D viewing:
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw) 
 
     -Steven->
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/3/2008 12:01:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pmspirito-AT-hotmail.com writes:

I too  find this topic to be fascinating!  And I've been wondering for some  
time if is possible to set up some kind of "home" motion capture  system.

As far a Wii goes, a friend and PuppetCriter Mary Gragen was  working on that 
very thing at the O'Neill Puppet Conference this  summer.  She did some very 
interesting things, using the Wii and an  infrared LED glove that she built 
and performed live at the  conference.  She was able to get a lot of 
character out of some very  simple green dots, each moving according to one 
of her fingers.

But  as to guys have already said, it's the lack of cheap software to 
translate  that digital movement onto a digital character.

This is a very exciting  string, let's keep it up.

Paul Spirito  

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