Thursday, November 4, 2010

2930 - Tutorial week 1

1.Explain in your own words, What is motion capture?
A set of equipment recording movement and turn it into data.

2.Explain in your own words, What is the connection between Zoe-trope, Rotoscope, Motion Capture.
Those three form are a way to recording/creating animations.
Zoe-trope is rotating images to creat moving feel.

Rotoscope is tracing every frame of the film.

Motion Capture


3.Choose a Game or a Movie and explain/ show videos, their motion capturing process, company name, year, clip.
Beowulf - ImageMovers and Shangri-La Entertainment ,2007





Prosthetic motion capture
Advantages
1.very accurate
2.transmits real-time data
3.have greater range

Disadvantages
1.heavy
2.more expansive
3.limited movement.
4.might cause hygiene problems.