Kinematic 0.5.0 is out. Modeling and sculpting in the viewport, a timeline on every graph, photo and sound editing. What's new
DevelopersDemosLearnCommunityVolunteerAboutDownload
Kinematic / Perform / Cameras

Use live cameras.

Track bodies, hands and faces, drop backgrounds and rebuild rooms, all on your own machine.

Download for macOS 0.5.0Back to Perform
Things to make
a dancer with his background dropped and his body tracked, from a video file
01

Track a body

A skeleton over the live picture, ready to drive anything.

  1. Turn on the webcam.
  2. Read the body pose.
  3. Draw it, or drive anything with it.
VideoCaptureInterface→LocalAIImageToBodyPose→ImageDisplay
a skeleton tracked over a dancer, read from a video file
02

Fire a cue with your hand

Thumbs up, open palm, fist. Each one is a trigger.

  1. Turn on the webcam.
  2. Read hand gestures.
  3. Wire each one to a cue, a sound or a light.
VideoCaptureInterface→LocalAIImageToHandGestures→DmxCueStack
a gesture firing a cue
a gesture firing a cue
03

Spotlight one thing

Click once and a mask follows it around the room.

  1. Turn on the webcam.
  2. Click the thing to follow.
  3. Use the mask as a spotlight, a key or a matte.
VideoCaptureInterface→LocalAIImageToTrackedMask→ImageMaskMix
one click on the dancer and the mask follows him as a spotlight
04

Key yourself onto a set

A green screen, cleaned up, with a virtual room behind you.

  1. Take the green out.
  2. Clean the green off the edges.
  3. Put the room in behind you.
VideoCaptureInterface→ImageChromaKey→ImageDespill→ImageAlphaOver
a green screen shot keyed onto a virtual room, the wipe showing before and after
05

Turn the room into points

A depth camera rebuilds the room in 3D.

  1. Plug in a depth camera.
  2. Turn depth into points.
  3. Fly a camera through it.
DepthCameraCaptureInterface→DepthImageToGeometry→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
a room seen by a depth camera as points, beside its depth map
a room seen by a depth camera as points, beside its depth map
06

Make a face puppet

Jaw, smile, blink and brow as live values.

  1. Turn on the webcam.
  2. Read your face.
  3. Drive a character, a puppet or any effect.
VideoCaptureInterface→LocalAIImageToBlendshapes→3DGeoRigBlendShapes
a character's jaw, blinks and brows moving on live values
Take it further

It all connects.

Every part of Kinematic works with the others. Wire one into the next.

Play

Play a synth with your hands

One hand sets the pitch, the other the filter.

LocalAIImageToHandKeypoints→AudioOscillator
Show me →Create

Put yourself on a character

Webcam motion capture, live.

LocalAIImageToBodyPose→3DGeoRigRetarget
Show me →Perform

Follow them with a light

A moving head finds the dancer and stays on them.

LocalAIImageToBodyPose→DmxFollowSpotEngine
Show me →
Keep going
← PreviousLightingControl stage lighting.
Tracking guide, under Help in the app→Browse the Perform demos→Coming from TouchDesigner?→

Free and open. Yours, forever.

No account, no license key. macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

Download Kinematic 0.5.0