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October, 1999 SIGGRAPH '99 Show Report

"Motion capture is still a wildly expensive production option (we're talking six figures) and is used primarily by the broadcast-television and film industries, where pockets are the deepest. But it's relevance to the business-to-business market is growing. Alternatives to buying or renting motion capture equipment are popping up (see Editor's Choice for MOTEK^tm), as are applications in training and medical imaging."

EDITOR'S CHOICE

MOTEK Stockmoves^tm Web-Based Motion Capture Library

Imagine a project that calls for a lot of animated content. Your clients want life-like animated figures, and you don't think you can deliver what they want when they want it with your limited staff. You turn to motion capture. Not content to paste in some stock mocap sequences, you decide to build your own. Your budget is tight, so renting the six-figure equipment and hiring the talent to capture your own images is out. What do you do?

MOTEK thinks that you'll find what you're looking for in its new web-based Stockmoves motion capture library. With reasonable prices and a proprietary 1.5 terabyte catalog of images, Stockmoves lets you export its files - in combinations that you create - into 3D environments such as Avid SoftImage and Discreet 3d Studio MAX.

By Beth Marchant