LiveMotion Capture In a Performing Arts Environment

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Live-Motion Capture In a Performing Arts
Environment

• OralMing-Fan Wei
• 2005.02.23

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Outline

• Introduction
• Mocap and image pipeline.
• Response from audience and performers
• Conclusion Futureworks
• Applications of Digital tech.
• Operating processes
• Examples

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Introduction
An experimental dance performance featuring
live-motion capture, real-time computer graphics,
and multi-image projection was produced by a
cross-departmental team of faculty and students
at Purdue University.
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History

• The first large-scale production by the
  Interactive Performance Laboratory was
  Shakespeares The Tempest.
• The Troika Ranch Dance theatre company was
  founded in 1993, and since 1994 has been working
  with motion-capture technology. Its first
  production using live-motion capture was The
  Plane.

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History

• Merce Cunningham is an innovator in dance and
  technology. His collaboration with Paul Kaiser,
  Shelley Eshkar, and Unreal Pictures, called
  Hand-drawn Spaces, is a milestone in motion-
  capture for dance performance.

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Mo-cap and image pipeline
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Response from audience and performers

• Given the nontraditional format of the
  performance, it was important to get feedback
  from the audience and performers.
• Audience Response
• A Dancers Experience

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Conclusion Futureworks

• With the developed story comes the necessity for
  a virtual environment. The production will have a
  fully-realized virtual environment along with a
  virtual character.
• Some of the new technology employed forthe spring
  2004 show is a motion-capture system from Sim
  Techniques (STT), called the Motion Captor.

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Q A

• Thanks For Your Attention!

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Applications of Digital tech.

• Mechanical motion capture
• Magnetic motion capture
• Optical motion capture

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Operating processes

• Model Build
• Active Film Box / MOTIONBUILDER
• After Effect

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Examples

• Game
• Movie
• Other

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Game

• Onimusha / Movie / Backstage
• Metal Gear Solid
• FINAL FANTASY XII
• Tomb Raider

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Movie

• The Load of The Ring

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Other

• Animation company
• News
• Health
• Advertisement
• After Effect
• Animation