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Dance Mocap

 

Alternate Realities

Spring 2019

#motion-capture #unreal-engine #blueprint

Alternate Realities is a motion capture piece that uses a mix of prerecorded and live performance mix to explore the human body and space through the perspective of a nonhuman as it attempts to make sense of its surroundings.

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Alternate Realities watches as an alien explores different parts of the human body in what is seemingly outer space to the backdrop of O Fortuna.

The piece features an alien with prerecorded Motion Capture(Mocap) data to dance in the interior of a heart, on a hand, on a pair of lungs, and all over in outer space. As it was a live performance, accompanying the alien were three eyeballs controlled by three live dancers whose motion was captured and streamed into the eyeballs. The digital aspect was projected onto the back wall and was controlled and streamed through Unreal Engine. 

Special thanks to Kat Sullivan and Matt Romein as without their support and troubleshooting knowledge this project wouldn’t be possible.

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