Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Muybridge First Motion Capture at Stanford:
Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Following Muybridge
--> Etienne-Jules Marey
Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Max Fleischer: 1917 Patent on Rotoscope Machine
Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation
• Ralph Bakshi’s: Lord of the Rings
• Yellow Submarine: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• Total Recall (Schwarzenegger): X-Ray Scene
• Technology
• Video Games
Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation
• Polhemus Technology (Ascensien Capture)
• Barbie Commercial
Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Disney:
Step-mother of Cinderella
Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Disney:
Eleanor Audley
Rotoscope / Mocap: History
• Disney:
Step-Mother Eleanor Audley
Disney: Expressive Motion
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Rotoscope / Mocap: History• Disney: Helen Stanley Sleeping Beauty
"Artistic Fact or Optical Delusion? Culture: David Hockney claims many famous paintings were traced using camera-like devices"
Johanson’s Moving Light Displays
Rotoscope in Art:
• Rebecca Allen / Twyla Tharp: The Catherine Wheel
Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones
• “Brilliance”: Bob Able 1984 (18 pen markers, 4 ½ weeks rotoscoping for 3min commercial)
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Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones
• Kleiser-Walczak Construction: 1989 “Don’t Touch Me” (Synthespians)
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Rotoscope/Mocap in Special FX
• PDI, D2, ILM, House of Moves:Batman, Titanic, Mummy, Episode ISinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
• Pixar / Disney
Mocap for Interactive Entertainment
• EA Sports
Mechanical :
SimGraphics
Mechanical / Exo-Skelton:
Electro-Magnetic (Polhemus):
Active Optical
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Vision Based
- Enough for Animation ?