Automatic motion capture with Deepmotion and Blender

In this short video, DJ shows how he uses a new online service to turn a video of himself moving into an animated 3D character. To achieve this all you need is a smartphone with a camera to record yourself (or someone else) in motion and upload the video to 3d animate cloud on deepmotion’s webpage. You can get a free trial of Animate 3D here: Animate 3D prepares an animated rig based on the video you upload. This is truly automatic motion capture! You can download the animations as fbx or bvh and import them to Blender or other 3d programs like 3dsMax, Maya, or Cinema 4D. In this video DJ also shows the process of binding the rig with animations to a pre-made character from blender cloud (made by Andy Goralczyk). To do that you can use parenting with automatic weights. With only a few clicks you can have a 3d avatar repeating your moves! Here are a few tips from Deepmotion on how to prepare the video to get best results: - Keep the camera still and parallel t