Low cost mocap for hands and feet?
I am about to start a project; in which I will need to animate also hands and feet.
I've tried to do it via keyframes, but the results are not that great, and also it takes forever; so I was wondering if you know any low cost solution to capture hands and feet movements.
In "dance type" games, you see often great animations for hands and feet, so I was wondering if they use some sort of mocap rig that has also gloves and socks, or if they do it by hand, using keyframes.
The motions that I need to create are not super elaborate, so I would like to avoid to waste money to rent a whole mocap studio just for that. I've done some research, and I've found low cost software, that works with kinect sensors or ps eye cameras; altho they do not mention if there is enough resolution to capture hands and feet movements (especially if you imagine a bare foot, which has the same complexity of a hand, but limited range of motion).
I am open to various solutions, like rent equipment or make my own mocap device, and get the software to capture it and export it in a format that I can load in my 3d software.
Thanks for any suggestion you may give me
I've tried to do it via keyframes, but the results are not that great, and also it takes forever; so I was wondering if you know any low cost solution to capture hands and feet movements.
In "dance type" games, you see often great animations for hands and feet, so I was wondering if they use some sort of mocap rig that has also gloves and socks, or if they do it by hand, using keyframes.
The motions that I need to create are not super elaborate, so I would like to avoid to waste money to rent a whole mocap studio just for that. I've done some research, and I've found low cost software, that works with kinect sensors or ps eye cameras; altho they do not mention if there is enough resolution to capture hands and feet movements (especially if you imagine a bare foot, which has the same complexity of a hand, but limited range of motion).
I am open to various solutions, like rent equipment or make my own mocap device, and get the software to capture it and export it in a format that I can load in my 3d software.
Thanks for any suggestion you may give me
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Measurand has a glove for using motion capture on fingers, which I think can be combined with other motion capture devices. I'm not sure if it falls into your range of being low-cost though.
I've looked at the Measurand, but they don't even have a price tag on it; and I assume that is in the order of the thousands...which is not what I would like to spend.
As alternative I am looking into sensors and gyro; so I can apply them on a glove and use a simple microcontroller (like the arduino), to control and gather data from them, and shoot it to the computer. The only down side of this approach is that I need to write the software to map each sensor to each bone...which seems more complex than just do by keyframe the animations.