Motion Capture

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  This group project, with Kathryn Rhine and Ryan B., is the Pied Piper project, this was the longest project I worked on, going on for 6 months in 2020. This project was a test of my abilities of motion capture, and my abilities to learn new software. The goal of this was to take a story, the story of the Pied Piper, and create an animation of the story, using Motion Capture to animate the characters. During this project, we all divvied up the roles so we were all doing something during each of the phases, we all planned the the shots, drew up, recorded together, and cleaned up the data by splitting up the different animations to each person equally The first part of this project was deciding what we wanted to do, by first each of us coming up with 2-3 ideas each, and deciding from there what we wanted to do. while there were some ideas, we ended up deciding to base our animation off of an old fairy tell, the Pied Piper, due to it's recognizability. The next part was coming up wit...

 As a part of the Creature Workshop class in 2019, I created, and animated using Motion Capture, a creature of my own design, a humanoid Lizard creature using a T-Rex as the inspiration The main hardware I used for this animation is the Xsens suit, in which I guided the wearer in the movements required for the animation. I then applied the data into the creature then rendered it. The part of this process that I had the most difficulty with was telling the wearer what movement I needed for the animation. In the past I usually wear the suit myself, or someone who knows the animations would wear the suit, so this time around I had to tell someone else what to do, in a way that they understood what to do. I was able to solve this by working with the performer before hand, and practicing the movements, and even demonstrating them myself. Ultimately, this was one of my favorite projects to work on due to the creativity of everything, and how fun it was, and I learned a lot about guiding ...