Building a low-cost motion capture suit for animation
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2021-05
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Motion capture has become a major player in the film and animation industry.
Mimicking natural and subtle movements of humans and animals has made animation a lot
more believable and engaging. This paper presents a low-cost design of a motion capture
unit based on the ESP32 and a 9-DOF inertial sensor Bno055. A calibration method based
on a standing posture is used. The sensors data are retrieved via the serial port of the Arduino
IDE and sent to Blender, a 3D program, to display real-time motion. If a believable
performance can be achieved with low-cost inertial sensors, then the overall cost of existing
motion capture technology can be reduced.
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Capstone Project submitted to the Department of Engineering, Ashesi University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, May 2021
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Inertial Motion Units