About

My name is Jasper Brekelmans. I've worked in the professional 3D industry since 1999, mostly on motion capture and character animation for TV series, film, games, commercials and live events, for many years as a mocap and character TD at Motek Entertainment in Amsterdam.

When the first Kinect came out in 2010 I started building my own capture tools and releasing them through this site, first as free experiments, later as the Brekel apps for body, face, hand, point cloud and VR capture. They all follow the same idea: affordable markerless motion capture with consumer hardware, running locally on your own machine.

Free alternatives exist, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Some of them are genuinely good. If you enjoy getting research code running and wiring the output into your own pipeline, they are worth a look. My apps are for the other case: when you would rather install something, hit record, have the result land in a format your 3D app opens and get on with the actual job.

Brekel is a one-person company, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. If you write in, the developer answers. The best places to reach me are the contact form and Discord.

Talks

I've spoken at industry events over the years, including several editions of the End User Event (EUE), FMX in Stuttgart and VRLA in Los Angeles with the talk "Ahh Screw It... Let's Use Depth Sensors and VR/AR Equipment in Production". The VRLA recording is online: watch it on YouTube.

Microsoft MVP award

In 2015 Microsoft gave me an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award in the Emerging Experiences category for my work with the Kinect and for helping people in forums, on social media and by email. The letter of recommendation is here (PDF).