Cheap Facial Motion Capture - Part 1

The tutorial covers how to use a regular digital camera in order to capture the motion of an actor's face. You will learn how to import and prepare your footage, how to extract the actor's motion and finally how to apply the motion to a 3D character.

Part 1 will show you how to import the footage to After Effects and stabilize the video in order to zero out any unwanted head movement.

You can download an example video from this URL to get started on your own project.

http://www.ericthelander.com/tutorial/cheapFacialMotionCapture.zip

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lipsync
• motion capture
• maya
• matchmover
• after effects
• tutorial
• eric
• thelander
• mocap
• facial
• 3d
• animation
• character

[mayamuppen]

I've updated the supplement files to include som Maya scenes from various stages of the project. The model and textures was created using the tool makeHuman.

Have fun!

[brewmasterross]

um this isnt cheap cuz after effects is EXPENSIVE

[Jeffuguru]

really good teacher

[FokBibi]

good idea and good job my friend. I'm actually doing a motion capture of a dancer using two camera with matchmover.