

The latter is limited to the torso: the add-on doesn’t currently transfer leg position, so you’re restricted to an actor moving on the spot, rather than walking around or doing anything more athletic. Whereas BlendArTrack exports a limited range of animation data – either Empties, or an animated face mesh – BlendArMocap is a far more rounded motion-capture app, capturing facial, hand and body position. The new tool builds on the technology used in BlendArTrack, Hsu’s existing free augmented reality camera tracking and facial motion capture add-on for Blender. Updated : BlendArMocap has now been officially released.įree Blender add-ons for camera tracking, and for markerless face, hand and body capture The software, which is currently in beta, can extract facial, hand and full-body pose data from webcam footage of an actor, and transfer them to a Rigify rig within the open-source software. Technical artist Denys Hsu – aka cgtinker – has released BlendArMocap, a promising free markerless motion capture add-on for Blender.
