Real Time 3D Puppet Animation
reActor – real time 3d puppet animation using a low-cost motion capture system based on the Microsoft depth camera.
Using body movement for controlling a 3D virtual marionette.
This is a low-cost animation solution for performance animation (real-time productions)
Hardware:
Microsoft Kinect depth camera for mark-less motion capture (accessible and simple calibration)
Macbook with OSX 10.6
Software solution:
OpenNI framework
Avin PrimeSense for skeletal model
SenseBloom OSCeleton for joint information transmission via OSC protocol
Autodesk Maya for character modeling
Unity game engine for real-time animation with OSC data
INTERFACE: Microsoft Kinect