An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft‘s Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They’re using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters.

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It’s no mystery that we like the Kinect around here, which is why we’re bringing you a Kinect two-fer today. We have seen video hacks using the Kinect before, and this one ranks up there on the ...

Walt Disney is often talked about as the godfather of animation, but that honor truly belongs to two Frenchmen: Charles-Émile Reynaud projected the first animation onto a screen in 1877 and Émile Cohl ...