Motion LIVE is a full body motion capture platform designed for performance animation. Motion LIVE aggregates motion data streams from industry-leading mocap devices, and drives 3D characters’ faces, hands, and bodies simultaneously. The intuitive plug-and-play design makes connecting complicated mocap devices a simple selection. Motion LIVE is ready to animate custom imported characters or fully-rigged 3D characters generated by Character Creator, Daz Studio, or from other industry standard sources. Its easy workflow opens up extraordinary possibilities for virtual production, performance capture, live television, and web broadcasting.
With a new Leap Motion integration, iClone now gives you access to the following features:
- Add Realistic Hand Motions to Body Mocap. Most professional motion capture systems can capture perfect body movement; however, hand animation is always a separate challenging task. Now adding delicate hand animation is affordably streamlined with the Leap Motion Controller.
- Enhance Communication with Hand Gestures. People use lots of hand gestures when talking. Adding appropriate hand and finger movement can instantly upgrade your talking animation with enhanced motions to convey the performance.
- Animate with Detailed Hand Performance. Grab a bottle, open the lid and have a drink. Even such a simple movement already causes animators a sleepless night. With the Leap Motion Controller, playing a musical instrument is just few moments of performance and motion layer tweaks.
- Animate from Forearms to Fingers. Motion LIVE supports 3 hand capturing options, from forearm (elbow twist and bend), to wrist rotation, all the way to detailed finger movements.
- Desktop and Head Mount Modes. Desktop mode (sensor view upward) gives you the setup convenience, while the Head Mount VR mode (sensor view the same as your eye level) gives you best view coverage and the freedom of movement.
- One Hand Capture. Besides using two hands for performance capture, set one hand free for mouse operation. Choose data from one hand to drive two hand animation, or use the left hand to capture the right hand animation.
- Gesture Mirror. Quick way to switch left and right hand data. This function is useful especially when you wish the virtual character to mirror motion data from screen view.
- Free Mocap-ready Templates. Install the trial or full version of Leap Motion Profile and gain access to two pre-aligned pose templates calibrated for forearm, hand, and finger motion capture.
Learn more about what iClone 7 and Motion LIVE can bring to your animation workflow on Reallusion’s website or check out this developer tutorial: