“Metahuman Theatre: Teaching Photogrammetry and Mocap as a Performing Arts Process”
Conference:
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Title:
- Metahuman Theatre: Teaching Photogrammetry and Mocap as a Performing Arts Process
Session/Category Title: Educator's Forum
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Abstract:
We are developing a real-time animation pipeline that emphasizes motion capture as a performing arts process to create dramatic scenes with digital doubles. Framing the double as a performing object and adapting animation principles to performance capture, students learned a technical process in the context of a performing arts approach.
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