These are wonderful times for animation bloggers, what with all the controversy raging about whether or not motion capture/performance capture is or is not animation. I have long said that it is, but would like to amplify my feelings a bit on the matter. The cause for this is a recent posting from the ever [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Motion capture'
Oh Motion Capture, What Art Thou?
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Computer animation, Motion capture, Rotoscoping
Tags: Avatar·Bill Kroyer·Brilliance (TV commercial)·Digital Productions·Max Fleischer·Robert Abel and Associates·Rotoscope
Avatar
December 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Animation and live action, Computer animation, Motion capture, Stereoscopic films
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Well, the wait is over and, whether one likes it or not, Avatar looks like the game changer that James Cameron, Jeffrey Katzenberg and other promoters of 3D movies said it would be, quieting critics who said the technology would never really work in live action. It also looks like it will be the film [...]
Tags: Avatar·District 9·James Cameron·Neill Blomkamp·Rotomation
Fantastic Mr. Fox and the New Animation Paradigm
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation and live action, Filmmakers, Motion capture, Stop motion animation
… The idea was breathtaking. Picasso’s love for American comic strips was mentioned in Gertrude Stein’s book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. He was now thinking about making an animated version of Don Quixote! Since he knew nothing about the intricate process of making animation, Picasso had left it up to his courtiers to [...]
Brian Henson on Digital Puppetry
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Motion capture, Television animation
Brian Henson, Jim Henson’s son and co-chair of The Jim Henson Company, showed up today at Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts to give a fascinating presentation about his company’s use of “digital puppetry” in their new PBS preschool series, Sid the Science Kid. The talk coincided with the Center’s new “Jim Henson: Wonders [...]
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Beowulf
December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Feature films, Motion capture, Stereoscopic films
Seeing Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, I was reminded of the time when director John Frankenheimer came down to the University of Southern California in 1962 to show All Fall Down. During the Q&A session which followed, a student asked why he had used an elaborate tracking shot in the opening sequence. Frankenheimer replied simply that [...]
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