วันพุธที่ 18 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Time Lapse + Motion Control


การถ่ายภาพ Time Lapse ในปัจจุบันนี้สะดวกสบายมากขึ้น เมื่อใช้กล้องถ่ายภาพดิจิทัลมาถ่ายภาพ Time Lapse  นี้ ในปัจจุบันมีผู้พัฒนาอุปกรณ์เสริมสำหรับช่วยให้การถ่ายภาพ Time Lapse นี้สามารถหมุนภาพไปด้วยในขณะถ่าย ลองเข้าไปดูรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมได้ที่


Astro: Time Lapse + Motion Control



วันพุธที่ 1 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2553

From Motion Capture to 3D Animation

From Motion Capture to 3D Animation from Cameron Mitchell on Vimeo.


Watch this video to see the process of transforming motion capture into 3D animations by using Measurand's ShapeWrap system. It's a really neat look at how motion capture works with 3D animation and video games.

Canon 7D Test - 1920x1080p30

Canon 7D Test - 1920x1080p30 from kfenter on Vimeo.


Canon 7D with battery clip
14mm 2.8L
70-200mm 2.8L

Here are some unaltered test shots from the Canon 7D. Overall, I was testing for how the camera deals with motion, quality of the footage, and overall handling compared to a video camera.

Motion:
If you shoot with too long a shutter speed (1/15), I feel that the footage begins to have an unnatural trail, but if the shutter speed is too quick (1/120) everything looks unnaturally sharp.

Quality of Footage:
The footage is not RAW, but is compressed H264 in camera. Some of the compression begins to show noise in soft ares, and too much sharpening in contrasting areas. I also noticed the "purple edge", on some of high contrast parts of a shot. Anyway, it stills looks great even if it isn't perfect. There has been talk of a RAW video format... so...

Handling:
The 7D (even with the battery clip) is not balanced like a video camera. I did some hand held tests which seemed too shaky for handheld. The first thing I would suggest buying or building a rig to balance the camera length-wise, to mimic the long body of a video camera. Everything on the Tripod looks very nice, and adjusting the focus and zoom can be done without causes the camera to jitter.

Workflow:
I used Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 for the edit. First of all, it's so nice not having to log and capture footage from tape. The video files from the 7D are H264 so I set the sequence settings to H264, and match the frame rate and pixel dimensions of the footage. Everything plays back realtime, no rendering! When you export using the "Current Settings" the edit is not compressed again, giving you great quality and relatively small file size.

Overall:
The 7D shoots great images, and can shoot HD video, and it's cheap. That's amazing... But it needs a lot of modifications to make it handle a video camera.

HDR Timelapse and HDR Video by Michael James

HDR Timelapse and HDR Video from Michael James on Vimeo.


Most of this was shot with a Nikon D3 on auto bracketing firing 9 frames with 1EV jumps between. A couple sequences were shot with a Canon T2i and 3aeb +/-2EV.

The architectural interior sequences are actually just 8-12 total frames shot as a pano (each frame was a tonemapped version of the 9aeb capture). I then ran those 8-12 frames through Apple's Shake 4 and optical flow. It did a pretty good job at creating extra frames considering how big the jumps were between frames (amount panned). However, as you can see on some pans, there are artifacts (Left and Right edges where straight lines go wavy for a second). That is due to the software guessing at the movement of pixels between frames.

I really need to see if The Foundry's Kronos retimer can handle the optical flow better.

Ideally, I should have shot those architectural sequences and the garden sequence with many more in between frames. Actually I'm really looking forward to the Dynamic Perception motion controller that Jay Burlage has been a part of and testing along with Open Mocco. I can't wait to start using that combo!!!

Motion Capture example

Motion Capture example from GrupaMY on Vimeo.

Zastosowanie techniki motion capture

Motion Capture Reel 2010

Motion Capture Reel 2010 from K Sorgard on Vimeo.

Motion Capture Demo Reel 2010

Movlab - Motion Capture - Dance

Movlab - Motion Capture - Dance from movlab on Vimeo.

Motion Capture made in University Lusófona in the Movlab lab. We have a Vicon optical system.
Thanks to Inês Negrão, the dancer that we capture.

MOTION CAPTURE WALKCYCLE

MOTION CAPTURE WALKCYCLE from dbr3d on Vimeo.


Bike Motion Capture

Bike Motion Capture from Branding Brand on Vimeo.


blender + motion capture animation

blender + motion capture animation from vitos1k on Vimeo.

made with blender and syntheyes

3d Animation: Motion capture

3d Animation: Motion capture from Frank van Vugt on Vimeo.

First time with motion capture! It's a silly story though..
Had to model myself, rather lowpoly, and record ourselves in a mocap studio! Data was cleaned with motionbuilder. I also tried to be more consious with camera angles and editting. Hope you enjoy it!

Holographic 3D Printer - How to print 3d Poster

Holographic 3D Printer - How to print 3d Poster from Roman Rus on Vimeo.


More details is provided at rabbitholes.com/creating-rabbitholes/rendering-printing-hologram/
Video shows how 3d scene can be printed as a 3D Hologram, Full Color Animated poster.
Up to 1280 frames are used to create the hologram, but hologram can be printed even from several images positioned as layers.
3D poster appears naturally 3d without any glasses.