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 Motion Capture Powers "Funky Cops" TV Show Airing Worldwide Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003, 10:44am
Burlington, VT - October 17, 2003 - Ascension Technology’s MotionStar® Wireless’ sensors for instantaneously capturing human motions are being used to animate computer characters in Antefilms Productions’ Funky Cops animated TV series. The show’s director chose MotionStar to save time and add realism to its disco dancing scenes. The series is a tribute to the 1970’s disco scene and the fictional world of bumbling police. MotionStar was deemed essential to give the production team real-time feedback in fast action dance scenes full of lively movements.
To produce thirty-nine 26-minute segments, Antefilms needed many background dancers for the disco nightclub scenes. Ascension’s MotionStar Wireless and Cybergloves captured the movement data, with Kaydara’s MOTIONBUILDER™ used extensively for retargeting.
MotionStar Wireless tracks hands and body movement using Ascension’s pulsed DC magnetic field technology. It can capture the motions of up to 5 performers with six degrees of freedom, simultaneously, without occlusion. With MotionStar Wireless, Antefilms’ directors could optimize their mocap sessions through real-time choreographing, capture and instantaneous playback.
Using MotionStar and MOTIONBUILDER, the studio was able to produce two or three useful minutes of animation in one day’s shooting. By hand at the standard 10 seconds-per-day pace, those two or three minutes would have taken approximately 15 days to get in the can.
According to Jean-Marc Guillemoy, Antefilms Studio’s General Manager, the studio decided to purchase an Ascension MotionStar magnetic system and MOTIONBUILDER. “Having our own mocap system and MOTIONBUILDER answered our quality control issues and enabled us to have real-time feedback during the shooting....[They] helped streamline our entire production process and saved the animation teams a great deal of time on both Funky Cops and TV Pirates. We will continue to use them on future projects such as Code Lyoko.”
Funky Cops, co-produced with M6 and TPS Cinema, is airing in over 100 countries. The series has been bought by FOX in US, Fox Kids Latin America, Fox Kids Europe, Canal + Scandinavia, Foxtel in Australia, MTV Germany, VRAK in Canada, and CFI in Africa.
About Antefilms
Antefilms Production creates and produces animated series and children’s TV programs. Antefilms Studio, a subdivision, produces 3D animation and special effects. For more information, visit www.antefilms.com.
About Ascension
Ascension Technology Corporation (Burlington, Vermont USA) is an industry pioneer in the innovation and production of motion tracking devices. MotionStar and MotionStar Wireless have been used to animate many notable productions such as Sony’s The Getaway, Starship Troopers, Jay Jay the Jet Plane and Star Wars pre-animations. For more information, visit www.ascension-tech.com.
Related Links: Ascension Technology Corporation website
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