Overview of Motion Capture add-on for Blender 3D

The Motion Capture addon for Blender 3D is used for Basic Retargeting, Location Retargeting, MLA System and Manual Tweaking, Retarget Switching and Stitching, Path Editing, and Baking Motion. “Benjy Cook” takes a detailed look at using this addon for Blender 3D. 

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Blender GSoC 2011 – Tutorial/Overview of new Motion Capture Workflow from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial – Advanced Retargeting from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

The Motion Capture Addon brings retargeting and motion editing to Blender! Developed as part of Google Summer of Code 2011. This tutorial covers basic hierarchy mapping and retargeting.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 1 – Basic Retargeting from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

This tutorial continues the overview of the basic retargeting system, covers how root translation in space is retargeted to minimize foot skate.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 2 – Location Retargeting from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

This video shows how retargeting uses the NLA system as a kind of layered animation system, and how to perform manual tweaks to retargeting.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 3 – NLA System and Manual Tweaking from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

This tutorial explains how to switch between previously retargeted animations and how to stitch 2 animations together quickly.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 5 – Retarget switching and stitching from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

This tutorial explains how to make your retargeted animation follow a path/curve instead of the original translation.

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 6 – Path Editing from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.

This video shows a possible final step in the workflow, baking everything to a single action and then converting the samples to Bezier curves, for easier and faster access in Blender

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Blender Motion Capture Addon – Tutorial 7 – Baking and finishing up from Benjy Cook on Vimeo.