The QUMA (pronounced Cooma), from Japanese company SoftEther, works kind of like those 3D wooden mannequins that artists often pose when sketching the human body. Except that the QUMA connects to your PC over USB, and the majority of the puppets’ joints feature sensors that not only detect when they’ve been moved and adjusted, but also translate those movements to the character in your 3D software.

Japan-based SoftEther has developed a 3D motion-capture figure to create computer graphics and animations in 3D. Known as the QUMA, this human-like doll has a set of joints throughout its body, all of which are equipped with sensors and can be moved freely by the user. The QUMA motion capture puppet is ideal for designers and engineers to create 3D CG animation. Watch the video after the jump.

Faking human motion with ragdoll maxscript

hand controller vs. code controller

藉由3DMAX  studio中3D character Plugin–”ragdoll”讓建立出來的虛擬偶可以更接近真實世界中碰撞(physics collision)的狀態.讓程式不斷碰撞偵測(collision detect)以及服裝模擬(cloth simulation).人虛擬空間的人物更真實.

The system uses maya, PIE (programmable input emulator), a midi-motion-cypture-server and several other tools.

簡單的運用雙搖桿當輸入裝置, 但似乎手部技術操作是在布袋戲中,無法被取代的重點,這也是Digital Puppet最困難克服的 一點