Honors Program
Fine and Performing Arts Honors
Date of Award
5-2022
Thesis Professor(s)
Todd Emma
Thesis Professor Department
Digital Media
Thesis Reader(s)
Gregory Marlow
Abstract
Motion Capture is a prevalent and useful technology in the animation industry as well as the medical and military industries. As technology becomes better and cheaper it begins to enter the consumer market. A consumer interest in motion capture animations made by anyone has been created with the technology. This paper will focus on a review of the new technologies that have allowed the beginning of consumer-level motion-capture animations. Included will be a review of the history of motion capture and then a study of methods, workflows, and necessary prerequisites for making motion capture data using consumer-available tools. The study involves reviewing how easy each method is to understand and how usable the data made is for use in animations.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, John, "Motion Capture Technologies: Viability of Consumer Level Motion Capture Solutions" (2022). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 669. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/669
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.