The Mocap Book: A Practical Guide to the Art of Motion Capture

The Mocap Book is a great tool for learning or brushing up on the motion capture process. In this book you will learn a practical work flow using Cortex, Motion Builder, and Maya to achieve your motion capture product. The Mocap Book uses a series of step by step tutorials that start from a simple object through a standard biped character capture. You will go through the capture process, clean up, and integration of the captured data. Then you can use your individual style and creativity to add layered animation on top of the base data to have a final animated piece. The best part of this book is that it does not have a cd or dvd included that can get lost or broken, all of the files needed are hosted on the mocapclub.com website. Enjoy adding to your cg knowledge with The Mocap Book.

The MoCap book provided me a great overview of the process of Motion Capture through a very step-by-step tutorial process. You get a good feeling of how the process of motion capture works, and feel accomplished when you have a moving character at the end of the book.