Rotoscope / Mocap: History Muybridge First Motion Capture at Stanford:
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Following Muybridge --> Etienne-Jules Marey
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Max Fleischer: 1917 Patent on Rotoscope Machine
Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation Ralph Bakshi’s: Lord of the Rings Yellow Submarine: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Total Recall (Schwarzenegger): X-Ray Scene Technology Video Games
Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation Polhemus Technology (Ascensien Capture) Barbie Commercial
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: Step-mother of Cinderella
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: Eleanor Audley
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: Step-Mother Eleanor Audley
Disney: Expressive Motion
Motion Reference
Motion Reference
Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: Helen Stanley Sleeping Beauty
Controversy by Disney -> BUT “Motion Ref” "Artistic Fact or Optical Delusion? Culture: David Hockney claims many famous paintings were traced using camera-like devices"
Johanson’s Moving Light Displays
Rotoscope in Art: Rebecca Allen / Twyla Tharp: The Catherine Wheel
Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones “Brilliance”: Bob Able 1984 (18 pen markers, 4 ½ weeks rotoscoping for 3min commercial) video 44:00
Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones Kleiser-Walczak Construction: 1989 “Don’t Touch Me” (Synthespians) video 1:07:50
Rotoscope/Mocap in Special FX PDI, D2, ILM, House of Moves: Batman, Titanic, Mummy, Episode I Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists Pixar / Disney
Mocap for Interactive Entertainment EA Sports
Mechanical : SimGraphics
Mechanical / Exo-Skelton:
Electro-Magnetic (Polhemus):
Passive Optical
Active Optical phasespace.com
Vision Based - Enough for Animation ?