Home Made Markers for Motion Capture

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Learn how to make home made markers for motion capture that are just as effective as the over-priced pre-made ones. D.I.Y! You get the advantage when you do it yourself. These markers are painted green to contrast with red tones in skin (this is effective for all skin color types.)

This video also offers more tips for adapting your motion captures to the 2D image you want to animate, using After Effects.

Are you doing something similar? Let me know! Leave a comment if you have any questions about what was covered in this video.

These tutorials are offered for free to help promote my own story telling so please take a moment to see one of my animations at http://solomation.com. Thanks and I hope your writing goes well!

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[campbpar]

Hi sir, what kind of RAM or computer specs would you recommend? What are you using?

[drawtips]

@campbpar The more RAM the better. I'm using 6G. An Nvidia Quadro (Graphics card) is more or less made for this kind of software. If not the Quadro, a good gaming GPU works well.

[campbpar]

@drawtips I see, I see. I take it you 'purge' your document regularly too? To avoid rendering crashes? They give me heart attacks...

[drawtips]

@campbpar If I think a render might crash, when it's a complex scene or uses cast shadows, etc., I render as image sequencs, TIFF images. I save this render to a folder and it will make single images of each frame. When and if the render crashes I look at the last image rendered. I start a new render, starting it with the number of last image rendered. When done bring into AE as image sequence and render THAT as H.264 or the video type you usually export as. I'll mk a video tutorial about this..

[drawtips]

@drawtips Also, Go to Preferences, Media Disk Cache and click Enable and set up a folder on a hard drive. enable as much memory for this folder as you can. This made my renders not crash as much.

[campbpar]

@drawtips Btw, do you ever actually use the 'purge' function?

[drawtips]

@campbpar I don't use purge very often but I have been working with very simple scenes that are just a few images in 3D. Cheers- CP

[SoulReaverForever]

Nice i use Plasteline

[campbpar]

@drawtips Worked like a charm. The sleep- you can't compare.

[campbpar]

@drawtips "Render as image sequences" Interesting..." Thanks, I will be following up on this.