what is Motion Capture?

Motion Capture is a process of recording movement and translating that movement on to a digital model. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical applications. In filmmaking, it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2D or 3D computer animation. 

Xbox 360 kinect in the studio.

we went into the studio on the xbox 360 kinect. 

These are the games we played.

we were recorded playing the games as we are going to upload them into final cut and create video's from them.

(we were film as an 'animation' to then create an animation.)

the xbox also took pictures it's self whilst we was on the games and these can also be uploaded and used on a time line in final cut.

we were the controllers, so as we moved the 'person' did so on the screen

on the dance and zumba one's we had to follow what the people were doing on the screens and they told us if we was going it right or wrong with green and red lights.

(green = right......... red = wrong)

to select options ect, you had to use your hand. you did this buy waving your hand in front of the screen so it picks you up and then moving you hand to the option you want and keeping it there until the circle has gone round you 'hand' once.

the small white hand is what you control with your hand movement.

these images show how you use your hand to operate the controller.

Kinect Mortal Kombat

this shows you how you have to use your hole body, like to duck, punch and move.

it shows how active the games are and how you are the controller,.

Kinect: Dance Central Full Motion Preview with Jessica Chobot

this video shows you how the movements that happen on the screen you are meant todo.

it also tells you about the red light which shows your doing it wrong and the green light for when your doing it right.

Kinect

Studio Equipment.

1.Canon 5D
2. Cambo camera stand
3. Soft box wafers / striplight wafer
4. Sync lead
5. Bowens Pulsar Radio triggers
6. Bowens 500w lighting
7. Canon 24-105mm zoom lens

Nick Park

In 1990 Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed television advertisements for the "Heat Electric" campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among the best advertisements ever shown on British television, as voted (independently) by viewers of the UK's main commercial channels ITV and Channel 4.

Two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken Run (2000), co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord. He also supervised a new series of "Creature Comforts" films for British television in 2003.

His second theatrical feature-length film and first Wallace and Gromit feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released on 5 October 2005, and won Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, 6 March 2006.

In February 2011, Park made his first ever appearance, himself as an animated character in The Simpsons. Lisa Simpson asks Park, in case he does not receive the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film:

Lisa: Good luck, Mr Park. There'd be no shame in losing to you.

Park: Oh, that's very sweet of you. Thank you for saying so. [after shaking hands, Park's fingers come off]

Lisa: Agh!

Park: No worries. I'll just stick 'em back on. I'm more clay than man now.

we used college cannon camera's to take the images. it was just a series of photos taken to show the person/object moving.
object-
take a photo, move it a little bit then take another photo, as so on until u create the final image
person-
take a photo ask them to move how ever you want then take another photo and so on its the same as an object but you don't have to move them yourself :L

what is stop motion?

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.

stop motion is used in all clay movies like 

chicken run

wallace and gromit

corps bride

and many many more.

my contact sheets. from the shoot we did outside on stop frame photography.

the video for these images was lost.

in this set of images the people seem to be hovering forward and turning around, it took alot of time to get the images to run together but it looked effective on the final film.

i added a backing tune, which was simple sound effects.

the final film made the people seem to hover forward ect really fast and cause i took the photo's so it didnt show them walking it looks really creepy almost. 

how to work final cut

this is the program you use to create the video's

you drag the images onto this timeline and edit as you want

this is where your images will be you have to drag them to the first video screen to see if there the right images and then to the timeline.

this is where you view your video to see if you want to make any changes.

this is the second window as the first is where you drag your image to see if its the right one.

studio film

this is the video we shot in the studio,
we took the photo's in the studio and then brought them back to the computers and uploaded them. i then uploaded them onto final cut pro and edited and cut the images to make the video flow.
i added sounds to the video and then rendered it.

500 People in 100 Seconds!

i think this is so effective
i love how not only does the person holding the picture change but the actual photo there holding does as well. this would be a great idea to do but would take alot of time and people. i could go out and as random people to hold the photo, but i wouldn't know what the photo could be of or how it would change.

****** The Best Stop Motion Video EVER *****

T-SHIRT WAR!! (stop-motion music video)

this is my favorite stop motion video. as i really like the way their t-shirts move and they can interact with them like push a button on one t-shirt and something happens on another.
id love to try this but it would take alot of time (and t-shirts)