how to model and animate characters in blender.......?

Question

I want to model characters in blender the less time taking way. I want to do it like this - I want to take a video of myself running and then want to add a skin-like thingy on myself to make me look like my character. Can I do this in blender? Or do I need a separate software

P.S...... I have seen the making of Tintin-The Secret Of The Unicorn, and in that a guy wearing some white coloured costume did all the acting and they applied a skin-like thingy on him and other characters.
I felt that it would be an easy way of doing modelling and animation. Any tutorials or 'pdf's' on the subject would be very helpful.
Thank You in advance.

Answer 1

For motion capture of the body you'll need a multi-camera solver that don't exist in Blender at the moment, so you have to use external software. But there's ongoing development to implement a multi-camera tracker in Blender.



User manual on how to use and edit mocap data

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Benjycook/GSOC/Manual



Facial mocap demonstration

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2fJf37iPad0



Digital makeup test

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZalGrjGKSA



Tutorial: Face motion capture

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?283637-Face-capture-test



Tutorial: Using BVH mocap files for body animation

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AzYotTZVhcM

Answer 2

Advanced 3D Animation Software : http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?paoq

Answer 3

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Dude... WTF are you talking about? :)