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Live-Motion Capture In a Performing Arts

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Oral ： Ming-Fan Wei2005.02.23

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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 Shakespeare’s 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 Dancer’s 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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Thanks For Your Attention!

Q & A

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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