Kewwwlll...awesome...swell...totally...
That's what our visit to House of Moves was. Enjoyed it so much and so did the students and rest of SideFX. We were treated to a full demo of a take with 2 actors, sound, video crew and the whole VICON mocap whizzbang. And to top it all, we were given lunch and took a t-shirt home to put icing on our experience cake. Real nice people.
The work that these guys do is awesome and some of their film credits include Titanic, Spiderman 1 n 2, MIB2; and for games, Quake 3, some Star Wars games, Dead to Rights, NBA series (Shaq's shoes with markers were encased in a glass shelf). More recently, they worked on Star Wars : The Old Republic, Uncharted 2 and Resident Evil 5. I found the work on the Old Republic trailer was the best of the three they screened for us.
One of the coolest things we experienced was the virtual camera that was handled like a prop on stage, but its mocap data was used to drive a 3d camera in MotionBuilder. The camera handler then get a live feedback on his monitor as he moves the camera in mocap space. (Photo's showing one of the students trying out the virtual camera). Would be a cool project to do in school since we have a VICON studio ourselves.
Looking forward to the next visit....Rhythm n Hues.
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