Category: Mocap For The Archive
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Out On The Field
by Ryan Rotella The hopes of my Saturday rest on the shoulders of 18 to 25 year old men who I’ll never know But who used to be my father, uncles, and grandfather On the field The men clad in armored pads and helmetsAllow me to project onto themManifesting more passion than most anywhere else in lifeMy side…
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MoCap Final: Out On The Field
Enjoy the rough draft of my Masculine Movements in Football video collage. I re-targeted a lot of motion data in Blender using a process that my colleague, Galt, documented very well on his blog with my Python script that I created and in conjunction with Mwni’s blender-animation-retargeting plugin.
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Project Update before the Final Week
Currently, our final project (Capturing Movement in American Football) is underway and making good progress. We had our third motion capture session last Saturday, October 4th. For this session, I invited a friend who is an actor, Nick Yañez-Atkins, to don a suit and play the role of a coach in my football concept. He…
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Designing a MoCap Narrative
I’ve been struggling with the exact narrative form I want this piece about football to have. Part of me wants to have an exact script with dialogue, fleshed out characters, and a clear narrative arc. Currently, I do not have time to do that for this project’s scope (finish in the next 2 weeks). However,…
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Archiving American Football: Building a movement database
In developing my Motion Capture project on masculine movements in American football and how they provoke emotion, I’ve begun a more production-oriented phase. This stage focuses on designing a movement database: a catalog of specific gestures, stances, and sequences to be captured in motion. Characters and Embodied Roles So far, I have three loose character…
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Becoming a Football Player (again)
For this project of exploring masculine movements in American Football, I will be one of the characters in this project. There will be 3 main characters. One, I will play a football player, stepping back into a role that I played 14-15 years ago in high school. Two, there will be another player who is…
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Project: Masculine Movements in American Football
Concept With the help of my group (Michael, Galt, and Summer), I want to explore the emotional and cultural relationship between the movements of male athletes on the American football field, how this creates emotional bonds between competitors as well as spectators. Inspiration This concept of exploring masculine movements in American football emerged from my…
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