Introduction to Motion (Capture)Introduction to Motion (Capture)

                                                                                                    

SyllabusSyllabus (by the way: Mo-Cap = Motion Capture)(by the way: Mo-Cap = Motion Capture)

• 09-06/09-08: Intro / Demo• 09-13/09-15: Squidball / History• 09-20/09-22: Basics• 09-27/09-29: Software / Pipeline Intro• 10-04/10-06: Software / Pipeline Intro• 10-11/10-13: Vision / Tracking (Chris at Darmouth: 10-11)• 10-18/10-20: Tracking • 10-25/10-27: Project Brainstorming / Examples in Special Effects• 11-01/11-03: Vmob (Chris in Italy: 11-01/03)• 11-08/11-10: More on Games / Facial Capture• 11-15/11-17: Traditional Animation / Cartoon Capture• 11-22/11-24: Milestone #1 / Thanksgiving• 11-29/12-01: Art & Mo-Cap / Medicine & Mo-Cap • 12-06/12-08: Other Research Topics (Chris in Zurich: 12-06)• 12-13: Project Demo’s

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Muybridge First Motion Capture at Stanford:

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Following Muybridge

--> Etienne-Jules Marey

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Max Fleischer: 1917 Patent on Rotoscope Machine

Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation

• Ralph Bakshi’s: Lord of the Rings

• Yellow Submarine: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

• Total Recall (Schwarzenegger): X-Ray Scene

• Technology

• Video Games

Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation

• Polhemus Technology (Ascensien Capture)

• Barbie Commercial

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Disney:

Step-mother of Cinderella

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Disney:

Eleanor Audley

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Disney:

Step-Mother Eleanor Audley

Disney: Expressive Motion

Motion Reference

Motion Reference

Rotoscope / Mocap: History• Disney: Helen Stanley Sleeping Beauty

Rotoscope / Mocap: History

• Disney: First Feature: Cinderella

Completely Filmed Reference ???

"Artistic Fact or Optical Delusion? Culture: David Hockney claims many famous paintings were traced using camera-like devices"

Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones

• “Brilliance”: Bob Able 1984 (18 pen markers, 4 ½ weeks rotoscoping for 3min commercial)

Rotoscope in Art:

• Rebecca Allen / Twyla Tharp: The Catherine Wheel

Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones

• Kleiser-Walczak Construction: 1989 “Don’t Touch Me” (Synthespians)

Rotoscope/Mocap in Special FX

• PDI, D2, ILM, House of Moves:Batman, Titanic, Mummy, Episode ISinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists

• Pixar / Disney

Mocap for Interactive Entertainment

• EA Sports

Johanson’s Moving Light Displays

Mechanical :

SimGraphics

Mechanical / Exo-Skelton:

Electro-Magnetic (Polhemus):

Optical

Vision Based

- Enough for Animation ?