As part of a feature on Motion Capture, Business Week included Misnomer’s work in the realm of motion capture. If you don’t know what motion capture is, think Golem in Lord of the Rings. Cameras sense infrared sensitive markers, or balls, placed on your body. Each marker is a point or joint to track. After the camera and computer track all the points, a person can use those points for an animation.
The Business Week feature does a real nice job of laying out who is using Motion Capture and why. For a great explanation [and interesting use] of Motion Capture, I recommend you watch Chris Bregler, NYU faculty, speak about his work.
You can also see how Misnomer and Tronic Studios teamed up to create an animation for the international RES digital Film Festival.
how cool that you worked with tronic.
would love to see a bit more of the final product.
the clip that was shown in the apple video looked incredible.
love what you guys are starting to do here…
best,
kristin
Thanks Kristin. Your stuff is pretty interesting, too. We’d love to hear a bit about the process you went through to produce, shoot, and post the segments for Romeo & Juliet. I hope there is a making of making of video in the works (or at least a write up). Looking forward to seeing the show!
thanks
yeah, a ‘making of the making of’ would be really fun, but i’ve been so preoccupied with getting the footage i need, making sure things like sound are working, thinking of interview questions, trying to get interviewees in and out as quickly as possible, lugging equipment around, editing… that i haven’t been able to document much of the process. i’ll try to do something fun at the end though. it’s been a really neat experience. i’m excited to see the show too!