Festival Event

Getting ready...

With 3D becoming more accessible with programmes like Neo3d making it cheaper and easier for smaller budgets and a more diverse range of people, it’s only a matter of time before every nuisance of filmmaking is open to everyone. On the cusp of this wave are the people of Speck Net who are currently working on making motion capture one of the options open to low-budget filmmakers.

In the humble setting of the Festival room at Novotel, the director of the Speckled Computing Consortium D.K. Arvind introduces the event. The pair of students who’ve been researching this project give a mini-demo. Motion capture is tough, where to put the sensors, how to sync the figure on screen with different body shapes, but Specked Computing have created brand new software and hardware with a handful of sensors, and sure enough, the figure sways and claps and jumps with you.

Obviously this is not a finished product, there are creases to iron out, but watching a clip they’d developed in the earlier stages, the fluidity of the movements is impressive. What’s most promising about all this though, is the willingness of all facets of the industry to come together and work to make filmmaking a less elite business.

Shown as part of Edinburgh International Festival

Read more about the company here: http://www.specknet.org/