The Human Figure in Motion, Animals in Motion, Dover
History of Motion Capture
Early attempts (Muybrige, Murray, Edgerton)
Eadweard
Muybridge (1830-1904)
used multiple cameras to capture motion.
His sequential photographs are still used by
artists as valuable references.
Read more about him at Wikipedia, American
History Muesum
The
Human Figure in Motion, Animals in Motion, Dover
Etienne-Jules
Marey (1830-1904)
used one camera to capture motion. The photographs of a subject wearing Marey's
motion capture suit with markers show striking resemblance to motion capture
data shown
with a skeleton. Read
more
about
Marey
at Wikipedia, Austlarian
Centre for the Moving Images
Harold
Edgerton (1903-1990), an
electronical engineer, created photographs of phenomena that occurred
too fast for the naked eye. Read more about Edgerton at Wikipedia.
Rotoscope
Invented by Max Fleischer in 1915. Used for Koko
the Clown (Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons, Republic
Pictures)
Used for Snow White and other animated films by Disney
(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney DVD)
Early attemps on the computer
Brilliance (aka, Sexy Robot) by Robert Able, 1985 Superbowl ad. (Masters
of Animation Vol. 4., Home Vision, PMI)
Mike the Talking Head
Don't touch me
Reading: Chapters
1 and 2 of Understanding Motion Capture for Computer
Animation and Video Games