Video Based Motion Capture with Fred Isaac Ep 39

Fred Isaac is Head of Product at Move.ai. He has spent his whole career working in the field of computer vision and the last 5 years specializing in motion capture and animation. He has brought new hardware and software products to market for motion capture of both facial and body animation at Cubic Motion, Epic Games and Move.ai. He is now focused on the launch of Move.ai's motion capture application which allows anyone to create AAA quality animation using just a few iPhones.

Highlights of the Episode:

0:00 Introduction

0:24 Introduction of guest

1:27 Start in the industry

4:26 Path towards computer vision

6:30 Motion capture using iphones

8:44 Evolution of mocap

14:27 The product and price range

22:05 Looking to make it work for Androids?

25:41 Best average setup

30:55 Can the system do animal mocap?

33:53 What about capturing quick motion?

38:49 Working with epic

47:35 The calibration phase

49:31 Hands and facial animation

52:30 Retargeting

59:00 Outro

Quotes: 

“We're trying to totally change how people think about motion capture as not you go into that big expensive room. I'm not thinking about it as a huge production process.” -  Fred Isaac

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