ALPHA STUDIO
AlphaMocap BETA 0.9
Motion capture from an ordinary video, in Blender, for previs. Film one person with a still camera, press Capture, and block out a scene's motion, timing and staging on a MetaHuman in AlphaHuman Studio Standard. No suit, no markers, no second camera.
See it
The whole beta in ten minutes: install, capture, the library, clean-up, sending a take to AlphaHuman Studio Standard, and export. Watch on YouTube.
What it's for
Previs: blocking out a scene quickly from a phone video, before anyone animates or captures it properly. Motion from one video is an estimate. It does not replace a mocap stage or final animation; check a take before you rely on it.
What the free beta does
Capture from video
One clip or a queue of them, only the part of each video you mark. On an RTX 4070, a clip of two to five seconds takes about 80 seconds.
A motion library
Every clip in its own folder with its thumbnail, source video, tags and every version. Preview a take on a mannequin beside its video, several side by side.
One-switch clean-up
Travel straightens a walk or keeps it in place, Plant Feet keeps the feet on the floor, Physics gives the body its weight, and Joints keeps them in range.
Versions
Save as New Version keeps what you did; the raw capture is never overwritten.
Send to AlphaHuman
One click puts the take on a MetaHuman's body control rig in AlphaHuman Studio, ready to edit and export to Unreal.
Export BVH and FBX
BVH for any program, and FBX onto UE5 Manny or Quinn or UE4's mannequin with nothing imported, or onto your own character.
Set up for you
Get Started checks the computer, activates with your account and downloads the capture models by itself.
How to get it
- Sign up at your account and download AlphaMocap from the dashboard.
- In Blender: Preferences → Add-ons → Install from Disk, and choose the zip.
- Open Alpha Studio → AlphaMocap in Blender's top bar (or Ctrl+Alt+M) and press Get Started. Confirm in the browser, signed in; the models download by themselves after. On up to two computers. It stays active with your account by itself, a month at a time, with no button to press; a computer that has been offline for more than a month stops until it is back online.
A beta
AlphaMocap 0.9 is a beta, free and offered as is. Motion it captures is an estimate made from one video and can be wrong in places, especially when the body is hidden, the camera moves or the person leaves the frame. Features may change before 1.0. The licence that comes with it (EULA.md) has the details. Tell us how it went: [email protected].
What you need
- Blender 5.2 or newer on Windows
- An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 series or newer with 8 GB of video memory, and a current driver
- About 14 GB of free disk space for the capture models
- An Alpha Studio account (free) and Allow Online Access on, to activate and download
- AlphaHuman Studio (Standard or Pro) to put a take on a MetaHuman