Digital Theatre - an experimentarium

On this page we offer a public link to motion capture data acquired using the MotionStar Wireless from Ascension and ported directly into Maya. The following is from their websites:

"MotionStar transforms performers into 3D computer characters. Two models -- MotionStar and MotionStar Wireless -- slash animation time by capturing motion in a single take with instant feedback. Use it on any stage without costly calibration or post processing. Plug and play with PowerAnimator and Maya. For unfettered motion, check-out MotionStar Wireless -- the world's first and only real-time magnetic tracker to shed its trailing cables. Performers are free to twist, flip and even pirouette without losing data or getting tied up in knots."

If you are working with Maya or PowerAnimator you should have no problem downloading a copy of this data and working with it. We offer it in the spirit of the hero of software creation Linus Torvalds who developed Linux as "open source" code. In other words, if you use the data and do something creative with it we would love to see what you do, please send it to us.

• Bodybuilding -- a 3-D poem in two parts
  
• MediaSpace [look in on a rehearsal]
• Analytical Seminar