1. Introduction to Motion (Capture)

2. Syllabus (by the way: Mo-Cap = Motion Capture) 09-06/09-08:Intro / Demo 09-13/09-15:Squidball / History 09-20/09-22:Basics 09-27/09-29: Software / Pipeline Intro 10-04/10-06: Software / Pipeline Intro 10-11/10-13: Vision / Tracking (Chris at Darmouth: 10-11) 10-18/10-20:Tracking 10-25/10-27:Project Brainstorming / Examples in Special Effects 11-01/11-03: Vmob (Chris in Italy: 11-01/03) 11-08/11-10:More on Games / Facial Capture 11-15/11-17:Traditional Animation / Cartoon Capture 11-22/11-24:Milestone #1 / Thanksgiving 11-29/12-01:Art & Mo-Cap / Medicine & Mo-Cap 12-06/12-08: Other Research Topics (Chris in Zurich: 12-06) 12-13:Project Demo’s

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

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

5. Rotoscope / Mocap: History Max Fleischer: 1917 Patent on Rotoscope Machine

6. 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

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

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

9. Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: Eleanor Audley

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

11. Disney: Expressive Motion

12. Motion Reference

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

15. Rotoscope / Mocap: History Disney: First Feature: Cinderella Completely Filmed Reference ???

16. "Artistic Fact or Optical Delusion? Culture: David Hockney claims many famous paintings were traced using camera-like devices"

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

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

19. Rotoscope/Mocap Milestones Kleiser-Walczak Construction: 1989 “Don’t Touch Me” (Synthespians)

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

21. Mocap for Interactive Entertainment EA Sports

22. Johanson’s Moving Light Displays

23. Mechanical : SimGraphics

24. Mechanical / Exo-Skelton:

25. Electro-Magnetic (Polhemus):

26. Optical

27. Vision Based - Enough for Animation ?