[Bf-committers] Interested in GSoC project about motion capture data

[Mike Belanger]

What might make motion capture ( and baked keyframes in general ) more bearable, is some
kind of proportional editing for keyframes.  

I think this feature has been proposed before, but its
been left on the backburner, probably because of the recent animation refractor.

Mike Belanger ( Mikahl )
www.watchmike.ca





On 2010-03-20, at 11:11 AM, Roger Wickes wrote:

> Cool! Some thoughts for variations/features:
> - what makes repeating human motion "humanly" is the variation from one step to another. so, like the gimp plugin that can fill in cutoouts, intelligence in varying the cycle would be great.
> - what makes human motion "humanly" is the irregularity of the motion. 
> Eliminating keys that can not be interpolated, and which result in smooth flow, makes it robotic. Pehaps a LOD (Level of detail) selector would be cool.
> 
> i address some of the library issues you speak of in a tut i wrote 
> at http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/Advanced/MoCap
> 
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> ________________________________
> From: Yumei Wang <yumeiw86 at gmail.com>
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 3:13:36 AM
> Subject: [Bf-committers] Interested in GSoC project about motion capture data
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am interested in the idea "Improve blender for dealing with motion
> capture data". I'm a graduate student doing research on motion
> synthesis based on motion capture data. I think this project is quite
> related to my research. I once do a small project of motion blending
> using BVH motion data.
> 
> Following is my understanding about the features mentioned in the idea:
> 
> Curve simplification for mo-cap data: we can use a smaller set of key
> frames to represent the original mo-cap data. Users can edit the
> motion with these key frames. So the problem here is how to sample
> these key frames to fit the original motion data.
> 
> Turn repetitive motion into loops: a simple example is generate
> walking motion of any length with one walking cycle. The problem here
> is to find the repetitive pattern of  motion from the mo-cap data.
> 
> Not sure if I get it correctly or not? Any suggestions or information
> is welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Yumei Wang
> School of Computing,
> National University of Singapore.
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