Experiments come together In order to bring together all the content created over the last month, I created a short story teaser. It is a a “teaser”, because the motions I have from the labs are very diverse and not ideal for a continuous play. At the same time, as part of the explorations I…
Tag: mocap
Physical ghosts and magic
For motion capture, the biggest barrier is the cost. We need expensive or mind-bogglingly expensive equipment in order to get detailed movement data. But this provides amazing opportunities! For the mocap software, un-suited people people are invisible, but can very much still affect the performers: we are ghosts. The magic of post-production I haven’t been…
Crawling through an uncanny and weird valley
Even though the technology has taken ginormous steps to transcend the limits of the uncanny valley, my own tech skills got me crawling on its floor.
New (starter) universes: stages and characters
Creating new worlds is always challenging. It tells a story, functions as a plot device, allows or restricts movement and evokes feelings on the user. And the characters that live in that world have to make sense as well, as goombas and koopas have no place on the roads of Gran Turismo. And that’s before…
Setting-up the lab and our brains
We will start working with the Motion Capture equipment on the Black Box Theater, but first we need to learn how to use and get ideas on what we want to do.