#brekel

So I was assigned to make this blog and to update it everyday that I attend on Omega Darling. So I’ll start with a quick recap on what have happened so far.  One insinuated Thursday night I decided with my dear friend Will, to make a mocap test with one kinetc that we borrowed in the equipment center. Because for two modelling nerds that’s a lovely way to spend time! 

Firstly I hacked the kinect to work in the windows platform, using this tutorial(OpenNI+Nite): 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVYYMtH3Ll8

And then we just used the demo from Iclone:

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/

But surely the UI from Iclone is very good, but it felt like I didn`t have as much control as much as I should because everything was a button and sometimes it`s just better if you have acess to the code or at least a way to change the variables inside the program like Maya does. 

So we changed to this mocap data recorder called Brekel:

http://www.brekel.com/?page_id=155

When we tested there was a trial version, now the kinect version is free for commercial and personal use. And the recording went very well, there as a screen that showed a rigg making a live performace. It was very useful to track where the cameras are, which is very helpful if you want to make professional mocap.  Until then we were making things without any guidance, but the results were tangible and we started at Omega Darling partially because of it. 

The first day at Omega Darling, I actually learned that they use camera tracking and matchmoving, which is taking a 2d video piece and taking 3D information in order to fit something or even doing mocap. The software used is PFtracking:  http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/