1. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Muybridge First Motion Capture at Stanford:

2. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Following Muybridge
--> Etienne-Jules Marey

3. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Max Fleischer: Patent on Rotoscope Machine

4. Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation
Ralph Bakshi’s: Lord of the Rings
Yellow Submarine: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Total Recall (Schwarzenegger): X-Ray Scene
Technology
Video Games

5. Rotocope’s / Mocap’s Bad Reputation
Polhemus Technology (Ascensien Capture)
Barbie Commercial

6. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Disney:
Step-mother of Cinderella

7. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Disney:
Eleanor Audley

8. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Disney:
Step-Mother Eleanor Audley

9. Disney: Expressive Motion

10. Motion Reference

11. Motion Reference

12. Rotoscope / Mocap: History
Disney: Helen Stanley  Sleeping Beauty

13. Controversy by Disney
-> BUT “Motion Ref”
"Artistic Fact or Optical Delusion? Culture: David Hockney claims many famous paintings were traced using camera-like devices"

14. Johanson’s Moving Light Displays

15. Rotoscope in Art:
Rebecca Allen / Twyla Tharp: The Catherine Wheel

16. Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones
“Brilliance”: Bob Able 1984
(18 pen markers, 4 ½ weeks rotoscoping for 3min commercial)
video 44:00

17. Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones
Kleiser-Walczak Construction: 1989 “Don’t Touch Me”
(Synthespians)
video 1:07:50

18. Rotoscope/Mocap in Special FX
PDI, D2, ILM, House of Moves:
Batman, Titanic, Mummy, Episode I
Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
Pixar / Disney

19. Mocap for Interactive Entertainment
EA Sports

20. Mechanical :
SimGraphics

21. Mechanical / Exo-Skelton:

22. Electro-Magnetic (Polhemus):

23. Passive Optical

24. Active Optical
phasespace.com

25. Vision Based
- Enough for Animation ?