Motion Capture Movies - Dance Workshops 2004

Navigating a future for dance and technology

Led by Richard Widgery - Motion Capture & Digital Performance Consultant

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May I thank everyone that came on the course.

I must give special thanks to Andy Cousins for his ever willing technical assistance with the Hypervision ReActor rig and software.

The technical ability and the rate of knowledge absorption by this class was astounding. No matter what I threw at them, they soaked it up and wanted more, to the extent that we completed all of the planned technical material in the first day.
Cindy looks apprehensive at first.	But then finds out she's not going to get electrocuted.
Keeping the structure flexible, we learnt what everyone wanted out of the course, some with projects in mind, some just wanting to know what you can do with this technology.
Real Time Animation RESULTS In both these following examples the RAW DATA has been applied to a character. Please note that no data cleaning or editing has been done. Rendered Movie 1 (1.2Mb Indeo 5 MOV) Rendered Movie 2 (3.94Mb Indeo 5 MOVI) These movies are compressed using the Indeo5 Video Codex. This is compatible with both Quicktime and Windows Media Player. Should you have any difficulties viewing these movies you should check for updates at either: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ or http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/