There is a new version of the Animata OSC plugin available. I’ve had the Z-axis support working for a long time, but I’ve just been too lazy to upload it here. Also added the option to change the IP address and port numbers. Useful when you need to send OSC from QC to a different computer running Animata. You really shouldn’t touch the port, but decided to throw in the option to change it just in case.
Version 1.2 Changes
- Added the Z Position port for the Layer patch. That means you can now move layers in Z-axis too. (requires the latest version of Animata 004)
- Added the option to configure the IP address and port number. (Please test this one)
I also updated the VDMX plugins to have the Z Position option.
Please test this and let me know if you run into any problems.
The winners of the Live2001.com Grand Prix National Student Award have been announced. Niklas Gustafsson took the first place with his animation The Third Eye.
The jury awarded my Product Placement with the 2nd place. I was pretty surprised about that. I wasn’t really expecting to be on the top three.
And on the third place, Johannes Neumeier with Digital Captures.
I finally installed Snow Leopard this week on my MBP. I had some critical projects going on and couldn’t afford breaking anything.
So the first thing I had to do was to update my Quartz Composer Plugins to support Snow Leopard. There were some issues because QC 4.0 runs in 64bit and my plugins had only been compiled for 32bit. But now they should work. I still need to sort out a few issues (check your console for details), but everything seemed to be working fine when I did some tests. Let me know if you have any problems.
Animoitu liike (Animated Movement) is an animation/dance workshop that was organized during the Tanssin Aika festival in Jyväskylä, Finland on September 24th to 26th 2009.
The idea of the workshop/installation was that anyone could participate in the workshop by walking in, drawing their own character and then animating that character just by moving their own body.
This video shot by YLE for Keski-Suomen uutiset illustrates the process. (In Finnish)
The dances were streamed live to the internet. The first video (the last dance we did) has all of the characters on screen at the same time.
You can also browse all the videos over at the bambuser channel http://bambuser.com/channel/animoituliik. Unfortunately due to some technical problems, some of the dances were not recorded. Another issue is the sound. On some of the videos the sound is clipping very badly and on some of them there is no sound at all.
Almost 90 people came and drew their characters, 94 dances were recorded online and probably double that amount came just to see what was going on during the three days this project was running.
The movements of the participants were tracked by a custom built solution based on tBeta and Quartz Composer. The participants wore infrared “beacons” on their ankles and wrists that were being tracked by an infrared camera. The information was then sent over to Animata to animate the characters.
The infrared light can be seen weakly in normal photos as well:
Photo by: Sirja Moberg
Here are some photos from the workshop and behind the scenes. The first photos are from a little workshop that I taught covering the basics of Animata for some of our assistants.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Live Herring and all of the other people who made this possible.
So if you happen to be in Beijing during the next month, go and check it out. Other video works by Audrey Delorme, Erin Corbett, Ivan Rubio, Vincent Drolet, Sadaf Hakimian, Tyson Parks and Robbie Murphy.
I’m not actually Canadian and I didn’t use a single camera to do the animation, but it’s all good.
The new Kauppayhtiö club is officially opening today. Me and Ålari are doing the visuals tonight.
FRI 21/8/
Kauppayhtiö
Cafe: DJ Righteous
Downstairs Club: DJ Hesh (Rollomatik) feat. DJ Micco + Superia United VJ’s
We also built an interactive/generative/audio reactive visual system for the nights that we are not doing live shows. More about that later, but here is a video of some of the content Aku has done for the first two months
Superia United is once again doing the visuals for the Main Hall of Time Tunnel this year. I think that this is the third time in a row. The main hall artists:
Eero Johannes
TV OFF
KA SO RE
Top Billin DJs (Sir Nenis & J-Laini)
DJ Tane-Lee
