Turning myself into a Humanoid Pendulum in Blender using Mocap

Published: 02 July 2025
on channel: Polyfjord

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Creating a pendulum wave animation with humanoid motion! 🕺🏼 Level up your character animation with Rokoko's motion capture tech: https://glnk.io/3vn51/polyfjord

In this video I finally get to try my own motion capture suit! For many years I've been fascinated by this pendulum wave effect ( • 10 Mesmerizing Glowing Pendulums ), and for a long time I've wanted to see this effect with a more intricate motion than a simple sine wave made by pendulums. So in this video, I'll be using a motion capture suit to record my own movements in my studio, and turn that into a seamlessly looping pendulum animation. Then to figure out the math behind all of this, I made my own Pendulum Wave Calculator using LLMs, so the perfectly timed data can be exported as a python script that animates the .blend file, and a MIDI-file that animates the music.

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🎛️ Find my Pendulum Wave Calculator here: https://tools.polyfjord.com

💻 Pendulum Wave Calculator on Github: https://github.com/polyfjord/Pendulum...

🎵 Music used from Epidemic Sound: https://share.epidemicsound.com/m6whxf

Software used:
Blender 4.4: https://www.blender.org/
Rokoko Studio: https://www.rokoko.com/products/studio
Reason 13: https://www.reasonstudios.com/
Circuit Board Generator: https://codepen.io/tsuhre/details/xgmEPe

Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome back to my studio!
00:41 Putting on the motion capture suit
02:34 Test-recording my movements
03:46 Setting up a physics simulation
06:19 Creating the PolyBot
09:05 Rendered result: Physics simulation experiment
09:28 Exploring the humanoid pendulum concept
11:38 Looping the animation and tweaking keyframes
13:15 Duplicating the pendulum character
15:08 Animating with the Pendulum Wave Calculator
18:23 Adding musical xylophone sound effects
21:19 Final result: The Humanoid Pendulum

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