[sech8420]

I'm a bit confused. While the demo looks amazing, I feel it is quite misleading along with some of the wording they use.

Is is actually creating the 3d environment and character models or are these premade, and instead, its handling solely character rigging and camera tracking?

[imaginationra]

You have to provide rigged 3d character models yourself(or use their premade ones)- it does camera tracking + motion matching or whatever algo/ai fun to track the biped animation- so yeah you feed it a video and the 3d models and it spits out either a video of the composite or you can download the 3d scene for further use/massaging in other applications.

btw Animation filmmaker here- tested a previous version- it was a janky toy that wasn't useful to me, checked out the new stuff today but didn't get to testing it after reading through the several pages of limitations on camera work, composition etc that can be used in it. I don't want my cinematography/blocking constrained.

Nice site design tho(shrug)

[sech8420]

I appreciate this information. Saves me some time. Thanks

[Joel_Mckay]

We've looked at a number of FOSS and Commercial options for a project recently, and found most options were not much better than https://freemocap.org/ with video occlusions.

However, we did purchase the https://faceit-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mocap_general/ commercial seats for Blender, and have found it workable with the results from the iPhone 3D camera App compared to other options (52 marker lip sync, gaze, and blink cycles will still need cleaned up to look less glitched in complex lighting.)

Combined with Auto-Rig Pro in Blender, it is fairly trivial re-targeting for Unreal Engine with volumetric preserving rigs (can avoid secondary transforms, so elbows don't fold in weird ways by default like Makehuman rigged assets.)

Best of luck, we concluded after dropping/donating a few grand into several dozen addon projects... there were still quite a few version rotted or broken add-ons for Blender around that people had zero interest in maintaining (some already made redundant by FOSS work etc.) However, there were also a few tools that were surprisingly spectacular... will still likely need to run both 3.6.x and 4.x ... YMMV =3