{"id":96,"date":"2012-11-08T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:01:52","slug":"skeledance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapflaps.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Skeledance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Motion capture and time synched animation.<\/strong>
The Skeledance is a choreographed dance routine in\u00a0Copperdollar\u2019s \u2018Back of Beyond\u2019<\/a>\u00a0at Glastonbury.
Our Day of the Dead performers flank the projection of a skeleton performing the same dance.
We manage to get the whole dance floor participating!
Introduced to Glastonbury in 2015, I used a Kinect2 to motion capture a performer doing the dance, cleaned the data, applying the bvh motion to a skeleton within Poser, then lighting and additional effects in After Effects.
I wrote a small app to be able to \u2018scrub\u2019 the pre-rendered video to ensure correct start timing when the awesome DJ Marc Stylus dropped the tune!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first half of the video is a mock up of one of those medical anatomy posters, but in the second half, I switch to an effect where it looks like there is a skeleton dancing behind the screen. The effect is helped by the fact that previously during our show, real performers have shadow danced behind the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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