experimental motion capture for beginners by juha fiilin
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Juha Fiilin Experimental Motion Capture For BeginnersAnirey Seminar, Reykjavik, March 2015
My background Filmmaker and a graphic designer with focus on film.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Teaching background Various courses and workshops about film graphics and visualization for both film and graphic design students.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Challenge How to build a situation where the graphic designers were creators together with the film students?
A course, where both film and graphic design students would learn something completely new and create something together.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Idea was born…Experimental motion capture for graphic design and film students.
Initial concern Writing a story would take too much time.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
SolutionUsing an existing story to speed up the process.
I proposed a story, Divine Consultants, an animated scifi comedy series (10x10 )́
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
My story was in development, and therefore I felt comfortable having it “hacked” by the students
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Story logline Oogle and Joy swear eternal love, but can the love last when the couple is faced with Heaven's and Hell's terrible secret and the destiny of all mankind?
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
I had created a strong visual look for Divine Consultants, but to make the course engaging and experimental for the students I would have to give the student free hands.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Oh... Divine Consultants is also a casual game in development (since Nordisk Panorama Hackathon).
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Planning the course Got go ahead from both film and graphic design departments.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Main challenge Students have no prior knowledge of mocap or even video.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Importance of the first day Re-writing the brief Keeping it simple Engaging students from day one
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 1 Kick start - the brief Sketching characters individually Presenting character sketches Forming groups
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Presenting character sketches
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 2More detailed brief - create a film scene of 30-60 s.
Working in groups Reading script together, selecting and editing scenes Storyboarding
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 3Creating each group’s own visual style Sketching characters and environments in groups
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 4Touch point with all tutors and groups
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 5Preparing 2d characters and environments for Motion Builder
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 6Introduction lecture to mocap technologies by Tanja Bastamow
Day 7Entering the motion capture studio
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Mocap best practises lecture by Max MäkinenJUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Actors try out the motion capture suit Learning A and T pose and setting up Cortex Motion Analysis
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
All students try out the virtual camera
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
All students direct the actors
Groups decide the roles for the capturing director
camera operatorassistant directorlogger
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 8First shoot day First two groups capture their scenes Film Director students help as assistant directors
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Group “End of the Road”
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Group “Endless Bar Limbo”
Day 9Second shoot day Two more groups capture their scenes
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Group “Eternal Limbo”
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Group “Mr O”
Day 9 All groups start editing their offline video
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Offline editing
Day 10All groups finish offline videos Motion data cleaning can start
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 11 and 12Data cleaning continues
Groups prepare their assets
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
First groups start editing 3d scenes with Jouko Manninen and Shareef Askar
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Other groups fine tune their characters and environments
Day 13First renders of the scenes
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 14Crash course to compositing in After Effects by Leo Liesvirta
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 14Passing first renders to compositing
Day 14Touch point with all tutors and groups
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 15Fixing problems with problem-solving-based-tutoring
Re-rendering erroneous scenes Dividing scenes and assets for all group members
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Day 16 to 20 A work, work, work week. Compositing Editing scenes together Editing sound and music Creating titles and credits Rendering finished projects
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Compositing
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Rendering comps
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Editing scenes together
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Synchronizing and editing sound
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Fine-tuning projects in groups
Day 21Screening the results at Aalto University Final critic
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Endless Bar Limbo
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Learnings Graphic design students learned team work, which they apparently don’t do much.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Learnings Many tutors were needed for such a crash course, which made this course a relatively expensive one.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Learnings Students Art Directed the 3d animators – yet another task graphic design students aren’t used to do.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Key learning Students work hard when they take ownership of their project.
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
JUHA FIILIN: EXPERIMENTAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR BEGINNERS
Thank you!
