Radical now supports real-time finger tracking
AI motion-capture firm Radical has added support for finger tracking in its real-time markerless capture system Radical Live.
Finger tracking is available in beta in Radical’s new Upper Body Mode, but will eventually become available for full-body tracking, and for offline processing.
The functionality is available to users with free Personal subscriptions.
AI tech extracts animation from video for use in DCC apps and game engines
Founded in 2017, Radical (strictly speaking, it’s styled ‘RADiCAL’) was the first of a new wave of AI-trained motion-capture platforms.
Its original offline service, Radical Core, extracts the motion of an actor from single-camera video footage and exports the animation in FBX format for use in DCC apps or game engines.
Newer cloud-based service Radical Live can stream animation to Blender, Maya, Unity or Unreal Engine 5.
New Upper Body Mode combines facial and finger tracking
Finger tracking is now available in Radical Live via the new Upper Body Mode, which extracts the motion of an actor’s hands, arms, torso, head and face.
It tracks three joints per finger, and the animation can be retargeted to any character with rig from Mixamo, Adobe’s popular auto-rigging and stock motion service.
Radiaal says that the functionality, which is still officially in beta, will be “soon” be available for full-body tracking, and with Radical Core.
Price and system requirements
Radical Live can be used on any device that “can stream video and run a web browser” – Radical specifies Chrome – including desktop workstations, laptops and mobiles.
Integration plugins are available for Blender 2.83+, Maya 2022+, Unity 2019+ and Unreal Engine 5.1+.
Free subscriptions provide 24 hours of play time per year across Radical Core and Radical Live, with users able to export up to three FBX files, and stream data up to three times per month.
Professional subscriptions cost $96/year, and provide 36 hours of play time per year, with unlimited FBX exports and live streams.
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