Project Number
- 65
Title
- VActor Animation Creation System
Description
- First commercially available real-time character animation product.
Contact
- Steve Glenn
Affiliation
- SimGraphics Engineering Corporation
Address
- Entertainment Group
- 1137 Huntington Drive
- South Pasadena, California 91030
- +1.213.255.0900
- +1.213.255.0987 fax
- 1137 Huntington Drive
- simgraphics@applelink.apple.com
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "The VActor Animation Creation System (VACS) is the first commercially available real-time character animation product."
- Using physical actors and special input devices to capture head, face, and body motion, real-time performances occur using the turnkey solution on workstation hardware.
- VActor enables character animation that can be used in live, interactive public performances.
Sight
- SGI Crimson VGXT, projectors, camera
Sound
- microphone, headphones, amplified speakers
Touch
- SimGraphics custom motion harness
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 4 - Practical, Consumable, Applied
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 309 - entertainment
Secondary
- 208 - animation
Remarks
- SimGraphics demonstrates a variety of VActors including "Mario" and "Wario" (Nintendo), "Tarbo" (Fujisankei Television), "Hot Dog" (NHK), and "Eggwardo" (SImGraphics and Mark Sorrell).
- Similar demonstration at SIGGRAPH 91.
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