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Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by rebuilder on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:58PM (#22379054)
Mocap systems haven't really been able to produce deliverable results without human intervention very long. I'd argue they're still not there, some filtering and cleanup of the data is usually required. A lot of VFX is still about throwing human labour at problems.

Edit: I should note I'm talking about motion capture for characters etc. Capturing the motion of a rigid object like a camera in a controlled environment is very doable.

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Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:19AM (#22381476)
You're right. The mocap data for the actor who played Thanos in Avengers had to be post processed by artist by hand since the motion of a regular man doesn't correspond to the motion of a larger and heavier Titan. I guess in a few years all that could be automated with ML.
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Re:Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandal... by estebank on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:51PM (#22387221)
You don't need ML to solve that problem, you can use inverse kinematics:

https://youtu.be/KLjTU0yKS00

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