u/Clean-Gift-5317

I’m building an open-source, fully local AI motion capture solution focused on making high-quality mocap accessible to everyone — without subscriptions, cloud processing, or expensive hardware lock-ins. The goal is to create something that genuinely competes with current industry tools while staying lightweight, transparent, creator-friendly, and community-driven.

Right now, the project is in its early stages. I have the foundational code structure, core ideas, and direction mapped out, but this is the point where collaboration matters most. I’m looking for developers, researchers, technical artists, animators, ML enthusiasts, and curious builders who want to help shape something ambitious from the ground up.

The vision is bigger than “another mocap tool.” I want this to become a practical ecosystem for indie filmmakers, VFX artists, game developers, Blender creators, and small studios who can’t afford enterprise-level pipelines. Think of the kind of impact projects like Corridor Key being VFX revolution — but focused on AI-powered motion capture that runs locally on your own machine.

Planned goals include:

• Real-time and offline AI motion capture
• Multi-camera support
• Markerless tracking
• Blender and game-engine integration
• GPU acceleration and optimized local inference
• Clean export pipelines for animation workflows
• Modular open-source architecture
• Cross-platform support
• Community-trained improvements and plugins

The biggest advantage of a community-built project is freedom. No locked features. No forced subscriptions. No sending performance footage to external servers. Just creators building tools for creators.

If you’re interested in contributing — whether that’s coding, testing, training models, UI/UX, documentation, optimization, rigging, or just throwing around ideas — I’d genuinely love the help. Early-stage projects are messy, experimental, and chaotic, but that’s also where the fun happens and where the direction of the project gets decided.

Project repository:
Local-Mocap GitHub Repository

If this sounds interesting to you, jump in. Even small contributions can end up shaping the future of the project.

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