To that end, the developers at iPi Soft have created a way to address those very issues. IPi Soft’s combo software package of iPi Recorder and iPiStudio allows users to harness today’s latest camera technology to inexpensively generate motion capture data.
The advent of devices like the PS Eye and Xbox Kinect, and making them available to the general consumer, have made it feasible for artists to leverage their ability to recognize human movement and convert it into data that can be plugged into a biped character. The other really big bonus is that this data can be retrieved without having to put on one of those silly mocap bodysuits. It’s achievable just wearing regular clothes that allow the camera to identify where your limbs are located. Putting it all together, this is a very attractive package for anyone needing a tool to add professional polish to their work without breaking the bank. The iPi Soft Desktop Motion Markerless System is broken into two components, iPi Recorder and iPi Studio, that create a pipeline to getting mocap data into your character animation package of choice. The iPi Recorder is the interface for working with either Playstation Eye, Xbox Kinect, or any other compatible motion capture camera.
The user interface for the iPi Recorder is a lot lighter than iPi Studio, focusing purely on controlling the positioning of the camera direction and giving feedback for readability of the actor in the environment. Setting up the cameras are pretty much plug and play, followed by positioning them for maximum data capture. Instructions for calibrating the setup and recording data is pretty straightforward and readily available on the iPi Soft site and Wiki. Once everything is setup and you’re getting a good feedback of depth and position of your actor, recording the performance is just record, stop, and export to be processed in iPi Studio.
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