Process
In May 2018, as part of the research I carry out in CENTRO; I invited a group of friends, architects, sound and visual artists, developers, dancers, teachers and students
from the institution to participate in the first "Mocap Experimental Workshop".
(mocap as short lazy version of Motion Capture).
The objective of the workshop was to explore motion capture as a creative process
in various areas, ranging from sound production, visual production, digital or object content.
Motion Capture.
First, we need to understand what is motion capture?
A series of markers or sensors placed on the actors / dancers are recognized or interpreted by various programs, to "digitize" their body
movements.
CENTRO's laboratory has 24 Prime 13 cameras of the brand, optitrack, which are managed and controlled with its software called motive.
Once the information of the motion capture is clean, we develop the characters; but, since it is a "short" project, the tool make human, (open source AGPL3)
was used, which with a simple graphic interface, allows you to create humanoids quickly.
layout_01. light
For this first layout, we thought about light, as a starting point both, visually and soundly.
The concept behind the animation will not be described in words, we think
that it is best for each visitor to have their own version of the pieces that we will share here.
On houdini, the principle of finding the shortest path between a series of points was used, with the use of the node Find Shortest Path, which, in addition to drawing a route between points, was animated. Line growth sometimes jumps from one path to another, since the algorithm is calculated frame by frame and can
find another path depending on the position of the nodes. It can be avoided, but it was decided to keep the effect.
On the sound side, Fabrizio a.k.a. Durvnt completely followed the line of motion capture video material. Based on the scoop of light and its behavior (colors).
Using
the tool Ableton Live.
For the subsonic recording, he used the VST TyrellN6, from u-he, a fun, chameleonic, free-download synth.