A billion kids and Motive
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:33 am
In Troms� in Norway I sat up my mocap studio during their children festival "verdens beste".
The idea was to have the kids come by, suit up and controle monsters live on a screen with their own body movement.
The festival leader was inspired by a mocap experiment I did earlier with my daughter:
Post on Optitrack forum
To manage so many kids in different sizes, we had to use an elastick and sticky fabric, not unlike the velcro. We made bands that we strapped around their arms, legs etc.
Then the ease of motive characterisation helped me get the definitons ready quick. This was great as it is hard to tell a kid to stay still for more than 10 seconds.
I streamed the kids to Motionbuilder where they controlled different monsters.
I was lucky to get the X marker from optitrack, as the standard round ones has a tendency to break when they get rough handling. During the entire event, that lastet four days, not a singel marker got broken.
[img:center]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/138 ... arkers.jpg[/img]
Funfact?:
I think this might have been the farthest North any mocap studio has ever been? Troms� is at
longitude: 18� 55' 18'' E
latitude: 69� 40' 53'' N
Article video from local news in Norwegian:
(they're older and wear the standard suits)
Local newspaper video
The idea was to have the kids come by, suit up and controle monsters live on a screen with their own body movement.
The festival leader was inspired by a mocap experiment I did earlier with my daughter:
Post on Optitrack forum
To manage so many kids in different sizes, we had to use an elastick and sticky fabric, not unlike the velcro. We made bands that we strapped around their arms, legs etc.
Then the ease of motive characterisation helped me get the definitons ready quick. This was great as it is hard to tell a kid to stay still for more than 10 seconds.
I streamed the kids to Motionbuilder where they controlled different monsters.
I was lucky to get the X marker from optitrack, as the standard round ones has a tendency to break when they get rough handling. During the entire event, that lastet four days, not a singel marker got broken.
[img:center]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/138 ... arkers.jpg[/img]
Funfact?:
I think this might have been the farthest North any mocap studio has ever been? Troms� is at
longitude: 18� 55' 18'' E
latitude: 69� 40' 53'' N
Article video from local news in Norwegian:
(they're older and wear the standard suits)
Local newspaper video