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Who Invented Motion Capture?
November 29, 2007 8:01 am
San Francisco commercial director Carl Willat has the shocking and hilarious answer. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)
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Wow! That brought back some ancient, dead memories for me. Ha ha! I had nightmares as a kid after seeing that sequence for some reason. Coincidentally, I had nightmares about Beowulf too- bad dreams about piles of money burning in the middle of a sewer.
At some point I feel facinated looking at this. But on the other hand… thinking of Beowulf and this so called “new rage”… *sigh*
Great! Now we can fire all those pesky artists!
curly joe sucks.
So scientific genius Emil Sitka was the culprit who invented Mo Cap. The ‘electronic cartoon’ footage was rotoscoped and hand-inked, but the concept is identical. If Max Fleischer saw this, it probably led to his stroke.
Great work, Carl! Brilliant! Sums up my thoughts on the matter too.
I talked about this film back in January on my blog. The film The Three Stooges In Orbit had a lasting effect on my memory. Of course, rotoscoping involves real hand-drawn animation whereas MoCap does not.
Yeah, electronics are evil and bringing about the destruction of traditional animation. So I guess you guys are stockpiling cel paint and mag track, right?
Paul: They’re all major stockholders at Eberhardt-Faber. ;-)
While I wouldn’t be shocked that the inventors of mo-cap may have seen this movie in their childhood, most of them have stated that the main inspiration for the concept was the holodeck of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
Goddamned Trekkies…
Thank you! That explains so much I had suspected! Brilliant detective work!
Yes, of course it’s rotoscoped for production, but in the film’s story line it works automatically, more like motion capture.
I thought it was created by a team of super intelligent monkeys. NOW I find out.
This isn’t too far off from the truth, yeah?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUfV0oNKqc
A few steps above Sychro-Vox, you have to admit.
Weren’t they trying to make films like that with Friz Freleng’s involvement? Or am I thinking of something else?
That’s hysterical. And how timely!
AL: Superintelligent? Nah. Meany, Miny and Moe are only about average as these things go.
Time to smash a bird cage over that guy’s head! “Hold hands you Love Birds.”
Pedro, that’s the line I always think of whenever I see or think of Emil Sitka! I can’t explain exactly why it cracks me up but I think most of the credit has to go to Sitka’s delivery.
I like this quote:
“No artist ever touched this. The entire thing was drawn by a machine!”
Sounds like a Zemekis wet dream.
Is calling it MOE-cap just stating the obvious?
I have to give the 3 Stooges some renewed respect for their prophetic vision. I love the way the studio guys (the REAL stooges?) are drooling lustfully over their machine of financial salvation. Cigars for the room!
> Peter says:
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> I like this quote:
“No artist ever touched this. The entire thing was drawn by a machine!�
Sounds like a Zemekis wet dream.
Funny how things just come back to haunt you! This little joke reminded me of something I saw once on a public access show where a guy showed what he considers the very first rap song ever made, and it was a scene from a Three Stooges short where the guys did a little poem-like tune to advertise their fruit stand biz, but it was so amusing!
The southern financial backer wears a string bow tie. Wealthy people from the south always have the correct neckwear.
I like how normally in a Hollywood film the guy with the invention would be an attractive, love interest character with dignity and a dead center kind of personality and in these clips he just appears like a ridiculous guy with an idea no one making the film has any meaningful sympathy for. He’s just another clown.
Once again Moe was a man thirty years ahead of his time. First, he invented the famous hairstyle with which The Beatles would later change the world, and then he created Moe-cap. Everything I needed to learn in life I learned from Moe.