Kevin Abbott, project director for the Digital Media center, created this animation for a dance concert last fall:
The animation was created using our Vicon motion capture system. The 3D character modeling and the mocap data editing was done in 3DS Max. Lighting, rendering, texturing and camera work was done in Cinema 4D. Music by Radiohead.
David Curwen, co-director of the Digital Media Center and associate professor in the Department of Dance at Western Michigan University, performed and co-choreographed the above animation.
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Doug Fox on July 21, 2008 7:15 AM
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You might also check out the mo-cap based animation work of Vita Berezina-Blackburn. An early collaboration with choreographer with Kareem Balsam is archived here (though I don't believe the final animation is on the web anywhere):
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Hi Doug,
You might also check out the mo-cap based animation work of Vita Berezina-Blackburn. An early collaboration with choreographer with Kareem Balsam is archived here (though I don't believe the final animation is on the web anywhere):
http://accad.osu.edu/%7Evberezin/little.htm
Vita also worked on Bebe Miller's "Landing/Place", which she documents on her site here:
http://accad.osu.edu/~vberezin/bm/landing.html
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