First 7D & motion-capture Avatar-like experience

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Edi5

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http://www.youtube.com/user/eurovision#p/u/0/xqDnxKGFK1Q

We did this music video for the Eurovision Song Contest ....

All filmed footage is EOS 7D, as always on Zacuto rigs. Motion Capture with Moven suit. Vfx in 3DS Max & AE.

enjoy.

Edi



The action of this video is happening in the near future.
Paula and Ovi are taking a domestic fight to another level by controlling
different characters in a computer game: Pilots in a space-race, soldiers in urban warfare, dancers
and finally robots dancing in sync with the human dancers.

The video has been filmed in Romania and Austria. The technology behind it is similar to the one used
for making the movie Avatar, called "motion capture". Special suits with motion sensors have been used
to translate the dancers movements onto the 3D generated and animated robots.
 
Very very cool, i passed this around to some friends.

How long did htis take to shoot? What type of software and lighting setups were used?

Any setup shots or BTS?
 
Hehe, thank you !

It took one day on location, 4 hours next day in the studio (white background) and another day near Vienna for the motion-capture and dance scenes.

Unfortunately we had only 10 days for post-production so doing 3d animation with motion-capture data (which had to be "cleaned") was quite a challenge.

On location, we had two sets of dedolights and some LED-Par's as well as some dimmable 1k tungsten with softboxes. In the studio we had large octogon 1kW softboxes and some flos.

It was edited in FCP7, animation comes from 3DS Max and compositing was done in After Effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Hkh4jgfro

here is some draft BTS, but I'm working on a real cut, with interviews, explanations, screen capture. etc
 
WOW. :eek:

3 days shooting, 10 days post?

Amazing work!


Also; very neat "piano" with the dual keyboards. And those mo-cap suits look really good actually featured in the video.

- Mikko
 
Edi5 said:
Hehe, thank you !

It took one day on location, 4 hours next day in the studio (white background) and another day near Vienna for the motion-capture and dance scenes.

Unfortunately we had only 10 days for post-production so doing 3d animation with motion-capture data (which had to be "cleaned") was quite a challenge.

On location, we had two sets of dedolights and some LED-Par's as well as some dimmable 1k tungsten with softboxes. In the studio we had large octogon 1kW softboxes and some flos.

It was edited in FCP7, animation comes from 3DS Max and compositing was done in After Effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Hkh4jgfro



here is some draft BTS, but I'm working on a real cut, with interviews, explanations, screen capture. etc
Click to expand...

Nice bts, what dolly systems are you guys & gals using !
 
Amazing work. Absolutely insane that it was shot, edited and composited in two weeks. How big was the effects team?
 
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