What's striking to me about this particular example--it's precisely the wheel I reinvented as a novice coder at Eyebeam in 2012, with Victoria Nece (who's now doing some really cool similar stuff at Adobe)....projecting 3D mocap coordinates onto 2D puppet characters. Despite the technology being a Kinect and MacBook that together cost less than an inflation-adjusted hour's rental of the Scanimate system...ultimately we followed the same chain of reasoning.

Victoria has shown me some demos of the stuff they're doing at Adobe. Really cool stuff! 3D capture is a great way to lower the technical bar for making animations.