Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and combined this with an AI algorithm to do the same job.

Artists are hardworking—they gladly embrace long, tedious multi-step processes in search of magic! This is probably why in the early 1900s, Émile Cohl hand-drew 700 drawings to bring life to his paper ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it doesn’t require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors.