This means that you don't just get a pile of 2548. Both spreadsheet and word processor friendly index files are available. Index/information files: The release includes consolidated indexes that list the motion filenames and their descriptions. This renaming makes it much easier (faster) to use the BVH files in MotionBuilder. Joint renaming: As many joints as possible have been renamed to be compatible with MotionBuilder's joint naming conventions. The T-pose faces the positive Z axis and therefore is MotionBuilder compatible.
T-poses: Every BVH file has a T-pose added as its new first frame. This release has the motions in the more commonly used BVH format rather than the original ASF/AMC format.
The files are free to use worldwide for any purpose.Īdvantages of this BVH release over the original Carnegie-Mellon data : The emphasis on this release is to produce BVH files that can rapidly be used in MotionBuilder for motion retargetting. This is a large set of professionally-captured human motions of a wide variety of types, suitable for use in animation software, which has not previously been available in BVH format. I'm happy to announce the free release of an enhanced BVH conversion of the entire set of 2548 human motions from the Carnegie-Mellon Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. 30, 2008: see also my followup blog post about animation retargeting.
March 22, 2011: all download links on this page were broken because MediaFire deleted all files without notifying me, but should be fixed now. There have been no changes to the actual CMU motion data or to the bone structure or names - only the initial T pose, which isn't part of CMU's original dataset to begin with, has changed. Please see the 2010 README file for details of the minor changes. I recommend the 2010 release over the original 2008 release, however links to both data sets are available below. June 26, 2010: I've now re-released the Motionbuilder-friendly BVH conversion of the CMU motion files with some minor improvements to the frame-1 T pose. Daz Studio / Poser / Carrara users: you probably want this page instead.ģdsMax users: you probably want this page instead.