Kinect Hacks, a website covering innovations in motion capture using Microsoft XBox Kinect wrote about the motion capture technologies developed by the Mocap class and their instructor Jean-Marc Gauthier,
chair, Animation and Digital Arts.
http://kinect.dashhacks.com/maya
More about animating a 2D puppet using Kinect here.
Check Animation and Digital Arts motion capture blog here.
Guest Lecturers During Fall 2011
Darcy Prendergast
Darcy Prendergast
Darcy Prendergast, an acclaimed stop-motion animator, from Melbourne, Australia,
director and founder of Oh Yeah Wow, immersed himself in our department for one week with his enthusiasm for animation and spread his passion to our students in no time. During the weeklong masterclass Darcy created with the students wonderful pieces of animation as he shared his technical and artistic stop-motion knowledge. Some of the exciting moments of the event can be seen at: http://tischasiablog.com/2011/09/darcy-prendergast-event/
Eric Riewer
Eric Riewer from Gobelins, l'école de l'imag, Paris (France). Eric visited Animation and Digital Arts and gave a Friday Talk.
Hans Bacher
Hans Bacher
Credited for the art direction of Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and other Disney animated features, the Annie-Award winning Visual Development Artist, gave six lectures about animation design as well as visual development and truly inspired us with his vast knowledge of film, art, animation personal experiences.
Mirek Trejtnar and Zdar Sorm
Students in Tisch School of the Arts Asia’s Animation and Digital Arts program recently studied with two of the world’s leading puppeteers, Mirek Trejtnar & Zdar Sorm from Prague.
Faculty News
Emil Polyak, assistant arts professor at Tisch School of the Arts Asia, gave a presentation at the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2011) in Madrid in November. The title of he presentation was “Storytelling with Open Hardware: Interactive Animation Learning Framework.”
Based on previous classical learning models created for animation and digital artists, his work presented a framework to stimulate creativity by divergent thinking without compromising technology and specialization.
Open hardware technologies provide first-hand fabrication experience in a workshop environment embracing interdisciplinary collaboration and information sharing. The aesthetic experience is perceived through
vision, sound, smell and touch while the interactive experience is created by sensors, micro-controllers, kinetic sculptures, puppets and installations connected to virtual 3D worlds. This kind of learning environment in conjunction with the emotional interest enhances the capacity to achieve original content and ideas that have value, while the divergent thinking helps to find solutions in various areas and industries.
Admissions
Applications for the MFA program in Animation and Digital Arts are due February 1, 2012.
http://tischasia.nyu.edu.sg/page/admissions.html
