With Marvin and me getting along well I set out to create a number of steps for stepping out of the way. Now I am new to animation and the part that I find the hardest with human motion is getting the inertia just right. In order to reach a better result I have done some motion tracking using camera footage. Me and my Ixus and a couple of my friends spent an hour filming the other day in order to achieve this.

The idea was that I would film myself doing the movement and then super impose Marvin (the rig) on top of myself and animate inside of this frame. The motion tracking gives me the scene and animates any camera movement, letting me watch the scene as with augmented reality.

Each green marker is where I have tracked pixels, the one in the far left corner of the corridor is set as (0,0,0) in 3D space. The one on our left bottom closest to the camera is + in Z, and so forth. Taking down the measurements for each post-it in the corridor I could apply these directly into the program, thus making it very easy to compute the exact camera position and corresponding 3D scene.

All in all I am really happy with the result. Might post a video of the result in the future.

Richard