BOSTON – At SIGGRAPH, France’s Realviz (www.realviz.com) launched Movimento, an
affordable, accurate and flexible motion capture solution that eliminates the
need for a motion capture production studio. The video-based motion-capture
software is powered by the company’s “SMART” automatic 3D tracking engine and
draws on the Realviz’s expertise in 2D and 3D motion tracking.
The new software offers users a
complete and flexible solution for facial, hand, arm and full-body motion
capture across a wide range of applications. Users can combine 3D camera
tracking and motion capture processes for applications requiring non-static cameras
(on-set mo-cap, motions spanning a very wide area, or a complex environment)
and to automatically reconstruct 3D meshes from the tracked data. Capture is
non intrusive, as it can be realized in natural or ambient lighting and
requires no specific hardware in the scene.
The application requires a minimum
of two cameras, which can be either fixed or moving. Any frame rate and/or
resolution may be used. Mo-cap data from Movimento can also be exported to
Autodesk MotionBuilder, 3DS Max, Maya and Softimage|XSI for further
manipulation. Custom computations and/or exports can be realized through
scripting (Python, Perl, TCL/TK).
Movimento currently runs on
Windows and is available for purchase as software for $19,000. Movimento Total
Solution, which includes Movimento software and a four camera capture system
costs $45,000. Mac and Linux versions are scheduled for release later this
year.