Centaur
- Half horse, half bodybuilder
We
were asked to provide the motion capture & animation for
a number of Centaur creatures that were to form the main characters
in a feature film production of Narnia.
Using
a Vicon system, we captured walk, trot, and canter motions
(plus all transitions) of horses on a tread mill and bucking
& kicking stunts performed in a 15 meter a circus ring.
The
human torso movement was provided by a bodybuilder who performed
to a real time playback of the horse data. Our major concern
was whether the human part should drive the horses motions,
the other way round, or a combination of the two.
We consulted on the design and implementation of mapping
the horse motion capture data to a custom built flight platform
simulator providing the animatronic close-up shots. We modified
the data, and added additional mapping to allow the simulator
to be controlled by a joystick which blended all the motions
of the real creature into a single one handed user interface.
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