A motion-capture-based digital database and demonstration system of choreographic intangible cultural heritage

Motion capture technology has superior advantages compared to traditional recording methods such as texts, pictures and videos. It is valuable to build a high-fidelity, high-modular and low-cost digital platform for choreographic data collection and extended application. As an experiment, we built a motion database about Quan-Zhou chest-clapping dance, one of the most famous choreographic intangible cultural heritages from China with standard optical motion capture method. And build digital demonstration platform base on an OGRE engine to display the movements, we also converted those movement data into common formats for vary use as video game, movie aftereffect resource. This study carried out a method to build up an efficient and low-cost motion system with the well developed technology. The system can be easily applied in motion intangible cultural heritages protection project. Furthermore, the system can be provided versatile motion data for additional use.