Body, My Body: Music Video & Animation Research
Credits
Directed and Edited by: Anna Henson
Movement Direction, Performance, Sound: slowdanger (Anna Thompson & Taylor Knight)
Lead 3D Animator: Catherine Luo
Lead Software Engineer: Ricardo Tucker
3D Scans: Jessica Medenbach
Gridsuit: studio-hh
Special thanks to Jessica Hodgins, James Duesing, Golan Levin, the CMU Graphics and Motion Capture Lab, and the Panoptic Studio at Carnegie Mellon University.
Role
Artist, Director, Creative Technologist
Tools
Maya, Unity, OpenFrameworks (C++), ZBrush, After Effects, Python
Overview
‘Body, My Body,’ is a music video made in collaboration with award-winning movement and music duo slowdanger, using volumetric capture and marker-based motion capture rigged to photogrammetry scans of the dancers’ bodies. Resulting point clouds were rendered through a custom app built with OpenFrameworks.
‘Body, My Body’ explores the continuum of human representation between photo-real and avatar, and the fragmented nature of a digital ‘self.’
Watch the music video below.
‘Body, My Body’ asks, how do we perceive and connect to each other within these new worlds?
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