Motion capture

Part A: Researches Step A Out of the countless number of examples of 3D animations I could have chosen for this paper, I decided to choose a 360 Virtual Reality animation for Star Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uG9vtckp1U). This animation puts the viewer on a spaceship and gives them full access to all the surroundings and gives them a challenge to find a set of given items throughout the video. If you watch it on your smartphone, you can use the built in accelerator to move around in VR, and if you use your computer you can use either the arrow keys or the mouse. In terms of quality, this animation is on the decent side, good quality reflection can be seen on glass surfaces, decent lighting has been used. The objects that are used in this animation don’t have a lot of detail except for the spaceships and Darth Vader himself. The skinning and boning done on Darth Vader is flawless, his hands and feet move without any problems and it gives him a decent walking animation. A cloth material has been assigned to Darth Vader’s cape, which gives it that bending feel and look. To render in 360 degrees in 3ds Max, mental ray can be used, as long as you apply “WrapAround” for the lens in Camera Shaders in the Render Setup and chose a fairly large aspect ratio. There appears to be a lot of Stormtroopers in the animation all lined up to welcome Darth Vader, time and detail was put to create one perfect Stormtrooper and the rest were just copied and pasted. The boxes used in the…

An Introduction to Animate Montreal Animate Montreal launches to support the growth of the animation industry in the city. Brainchild of Cinesite Studios, Animate Montreal is an initiative that has brought together companies from all over, all of whom have goals for Montreal to become a world-class animation hub. With the creation of 500 jobs at Cinesite, the company felt the need to broaden the spectrum of applicants and talent in the city so that they could create the best possible…

Greatness is only rewarded to those who seek it, not to those who wait for it to be handed out. Accordingly, producing movies based on great works of literature means translating the original work into something that not only has a great moral, but that is also visually captivating throughout the entire duration of the film. Beowulf the poem was published by an anonymous author in the 900’s and reflects the Anglo-Saxon civilization which had just recently converted to Christianity at the time of…

Jingnan Zhang English 3: Block Ms. Bunosky February 15, 2017 Archetypes in Toy Story One doesn’t usually watch movies and critically think about what is happening in it, but when one analyzes thoroughly, the audience can find some impressive things in the plots of these films. In the movie, Toy Story 3, the audience can clearly see a set of archetypes through the characters. Woody would be considered the hero, Buzz can be seen as the innocent person, and Lotso can be seen as the…

The advancements that “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” made great strides in improving motion capture technology. Although I do not believe that the final product turned out to be very good, the techniques that were developed made other ambitious films a possibility. Specifically, the technique used to capture the subtle nuances of an actor’s performance, which was later used to great effect in the film “The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”, in regards to the creation and…

Animation is the method of taking still images and presenting them in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. The contrast between animation and video is video takes constant movement and splits it up into frames. You have many different types of animation. Usually the main ones used are Traditional animation, Stop animation and Computer Generated animation. Traditional animation is created by drawing every frame by hand. Then these frames are coloured and scanned onto a computer and…

Unfortunately, her diary is left unfinished, for she, her family, and the other occupants of the annex are discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The general horror of war, coupled with the specific horrors that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews, is the major theme of the diary. Anne Frank, the young teenage girl who writes the diary, experiences the pain of war first-hand. In order to try and escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van …

PLAINTIFFS' MOTION TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS Plaintiff DARLA WILLIAMS moves for an order compelling Defendant SARAH MINER to produce documents withheld on the grounds of privilege under the work-product doctrine. Plaintiffs request that Defendant be ordered to produce said documents by close of business on March 17, 2017. I. ARGUMENT A. THERE’S A SUBSTANTIAL NEED FOR STATEMENTS MADE TO THE DEFENDANT’S INSURANCE ADJUSTERS. Federal Rule 26(b)(3) provides that: “ordinarily, a party may not…

these motor and wheel, are used to generate the circular motion, and this circular motion is converted into a linear motion by connecting extension blocks to the wheel. Now, I am going to pick a 70 extension block and connecting it to the wheel block like this, and I close it with a circlip. In the same way, I created another wheel block, and now, keep them aside. Let me Pick a 70 extension block and connect it with a 50 ext block like this, and I am going to attach another 70…

Early within the film you would also notice that stop-motion animation is a little “jerky” but, when comparing the film to other films of the time being released, King Kong (1933) is rather glamorously and brilliantly crafted for its era. The majority of the film was created by the use of stop-motion animation puppets. These puppets were made of metal, ball-and-socket skeleton armatures, covered with cotton dental dam, latex rubber and rabbit fur. To create the expressions of the Ape, wires were…