![]() ![]() Something that keeps your mind busy when your head is inside. The project had an extra dimension of danger, since there were urban legends of actors getting mutilated by the blades attached inside the robotic heads. ![]() With this pipeline it was possible to author a perfect animation sequence which could be played back identically at each shot. After that, I modified the motion capture communication protocol to support motion control, and wrote a control driver to radio-broadcast the data which was previously motion captured and edited in SI3D. Now we were able to record a live facial animation using the Waldo device, then perfect it in SI3D by editing the animation curves. First, I wrote a motion capture driver for the Waldo device and a designer modeled the turtle head in SI3D and connected the Waldo inputs to its facial animation shapes. Since the facial animation had to be redone live at each shot, it was not possible to produce a constant facial animation quality. The actors had to wear the Turtle heads while servo-motors moved metal blades around their face to flex and animate the head latex skin as well as a radio receiver backpack which was hidden in the turtle shell. then I worked on an interesting project : one of our customers was using a Waldo-like hand manipulation device to radio-control the facial expressions of the robotic heads used for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.I had a chance to meet the movie actors and Steven Spielberg made an appearance, it was a very impressive “Hollywood” type first experience for me. I implemented a fix in Montreal and I was sent to Los Angeles to configure the system. solving a data loss problem with an Ascension “Flock of Birds” motion capture system not working properly with a Onyx computer, which was being used at a Jurassic Park theme park at Unviersal Studios. ![]()
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