Darkwind Media Blog

On May 2nd, during the ImagineRIT innovation festival, the vaudeville show for virtual theater was performed. We had 3 characters who could be dynamically assigned to two different real-time motion capture systems. The system then synchronized the production with >20 clients across the campus. The performance itself was controlled from the 3rd floor of the computing college in the Computer Science graphics lab. I acted as the “stage manager” with a special client that had access to activate staging cues for lighting, set changes, sound effects, etc. The director of the production was also in the graphics lab giving direction to the actors in the motion capture systems as well as myself for timing.

We are still compiling the different video feeds we had set up from that day. There was a video recorded from one of the labs that was linked into the performance. It was recorded by Andrew Brown, who wrote the plugin which output real-time motion capture data from AutoDesk’s MotionBuilder. Here’s the video from YouTube: