Organic Motion Inc. announced the industry's first full body, markerless motion capture system. Functioning without the use of markers or body suits, Organic Motion's technology improves every step of the animation process by producing immediately usable clean data that can be imported into MotionBuilder, Autodesk's leading realtime character animation application, as well as any custom software applications. Organic Motion will be exhibiting at GDC (North Hall, booth #5603) in San Francisco, March 7-9.
"Organic Motion has invented a new way for computers to see people," said Andrew Tschesnok, ceo of Organic Motion. "We track humans in a manner that is much more sophisticated than that of current MoCap technology -- we have fundamentally improved the entire character animation process. Countless projects will benefit from our system's lifelike, 3D realtime graphic information and its unparalleled ease of use with major animation programs."
Organic Motion's patent pending system captures human movement naturally by tracking the entire person. The system generates industry standard bone position and orientation data, while also producing two unique data views: 3D mesh and surface texture. Organic Motion's output can then be delivered in production-ready form to Autodesk MotionBuilder or custom software.
Organic Motion's system considerably reduces demands on time, resources and equipment costs associated with most motion capture projects. Benefits of the technology allow its users to:
* Eliminate expensive body suits and operating engineer costs since artists themselves can run the system easily* Cut development time because human motion data is processed in a significantly improved manner that eliminates common occlusion problems inherent to traditional motion capture systems* Do away with "data cleaning" time and post-production costs because the system generates clean, production-ready tracking information from the first take to the last* Evaluate any capture immediately with instant feedback, avoiding lengthy delays between re-shoots* Continuously switch between capture and editing modes in a seamless and steady process* Quickly set up and calibrate the system
The Organic Motion system, scheduled to launch in Q3, 2007, is available in beta versions.
For more info on Organic Motion Inc., go to www.organicmotion.com.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
