MOTION CAPTURE

WEEK 1 – INTRODUCTION AND ASSIGNMENT

David Edwards

Motion Capture week 1

What to expect from this module

Lectures and tutorials

Assignment

Getting started with motion capture

What’s this module all about? This module will familiarise you with

the concepts of motion capture and animation.

Working in groups you will characterize a given character with your recorded motions

you will plan your motion capture shoot using the appropriate methods

Lecturers and Tutorials

Will consist of a 1 hour lecture, once a week

You will also have a 2 hour tutorial scheduledThis will be used for planning your captureCapturing the dataCleaning and editing data

Assignment

You will work in groups of 6.

Roles and responsibilities Each member of the group will be

responsible for a different element of the project

Director Choreographer Performer Software Technician Video editor Sound recorder

Director Takes overall responsibility for

the project

Good for those power hungry amongst you

Communicates the overall goal of the project to the group

Responsible for the financial control of the project

Software Technician Will verbally communicate with the

director regarding capture quality

Will inform the performer and choreographer of ways to avoid capture issues.

Will process the raw data and distribute the data amongst the group

Choreographer

Responsible for creating 2d plans of Motion Capture take

Must rehearse the motions with the performer,

Responsible for addressing the performer with the director

Video editor

Will be in charge of the video equipment during filming.

Will be in charge of compiling the renders in a video editing package.

Sound effects

Will communicate the audio requirements for the scene

Will acquire the sounds affects needed

Will work with the video editor to sync the audio to the final edit.

Performer Will rehearse the performance

with the choreographer

Will take directions from the director, then the choreographer in the capture environment.

Will communicate concerns over performance and wellbeing to director.

What about the data?

You will all be responsible for cleaning up the data. It will be distributed equally amongst the team

.....Who’s in charge of that?

Working in groups?

As you will be working in groups you will be peer assessed

You will mark others from 10 to 0.

Start at 10 and deduct marks for absence, unprofessional conduction or is inconsiderate of the group goal.

what you will be capturing

Each group will be given a character they must recreate using the surfer character.

Get yourselves into groups now

Would one member of the group please come and choose a character from the hat

Blackboard

Your groups must be registered on blackboard for next week.

Any groups not registered in week3 will be fined

D.j.edwards@staffs.ac.uk