How Motion Capture Works in Video Games



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From the PS5 to the Xbox Series X and PC the world’s best video games and now even Hollywood blockbusters are all using motion capture to create believable performances across the ever-growing world of digital entertainment.

We have all seen the funny suits and the memes but have you ever stopped to think about how motion capture actually works?

In today’s video, we are doing a very brief and basic breakdown of how motion capture techniques are used to make some of your favorite scenes from games and movies alike.

We have reduced this down quite a bit so feel free to share any extra insight or resources in the comments below.

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SOURCES

[YouTube] CodeMiko
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9kIeDrtsX0j83HbVljzSQ

[YouTube] RE Village BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uav6Dl9Y-g

[YouTube] How to fight like Kratos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKuc73DSscs

[YouTube] Last of Us Part II Behind the Scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH18nGoIUKo

[YouTube] God of War [2018] Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZWKBDXXFY

[YouTube] Avengers End Game BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHCp62jC84

[YouTube] Professor Hulk BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1XYKw8lo3E

[YouTube] Death Stranding BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYEhXxVEwo

[YouTube] Mortal Kombat 2011 BTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGzddUro1s

[YouTube] Intro to Motion Builder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e7wBdAbFak

[YouTube] Real-time motion capture in Unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyq5uPC5UY

[YouTube] – iPhone Facial Tracking Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KCUHAwXFiA

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33 thoughts on “How Motion Capture Works in Video Games”

  1. I remember they were talking about this in one of those RWBY behind the scenes, in which you can’t just slap a character model onto the mocap data, the animators have to make sure it still looks right. They said the hug scene in Volume 5 was pretty complicated cuz of the motion-tracker balls being blocked

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  2. As an animator for AAA games, I was ready to come down here and go nuts with corrections, but you nailed it! 🙂

    Great job explaining a relatively complex system in 5 min!

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  3. I really loved that scene with behind the scenes on the new resident evil where the little puppet is act by a women and she is so cute and makes the movements of the puppet so good

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  4. Love these type of videos, very informative! I think my favorite mocap performance will always be Gollum. Andy Serkis and the whole mocap team did a fantastic job.

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  5. depending how the quality of the recording and how much after work you want to do.
    just getting some Xbox 360 Motion capture (kinect) cameras putting them on a some chairs or step ladders or anything appropriated in a room and you got yourself a full motion capture studio.
    or just a heck of regular web cameras as long as it got a okey resulution I think you could get away whit like 640 or 800pix as long as the space to act on was not larger then 2x2x2 meter or so.
    sure there was a lot of work afterwards but if your on a shoe string budget that will work (note we could get the cameras for like 1-2USD each by scrounging second hand store and the bargin bins everywhere plus what ever junk you had back home (from a group of 10 odds are that you almost had enough cameras just from bringing your own).
    sure you probably spent like a hour each day just getting that darn thing to recalibrate whit the measuring stick every time you wanted to use it.

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  6. there is also motion capture for VR that should be mentioned as well as how affordable it could be nowadays to record motion capture live with VR equipment and body trackers and even simulate the environment around the actor wirelessly

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