2023-11-15
Tomorrow we'll be trekking from Cork to Dublin for the inaugural Culture Crush event.
Culture Crush is a new event bringing together a broad mix of professionals in the creative sectors; Film, TV, Animation, Games, Music, Immersive, Visual & Performing Arts & more. It's organised by Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet with the theme for 2023 in: Intersection of Creativity & Tech.
We will be discussing the impact of technology, including motion capture and AI in the arts. While I'm looking forward to seeing names from screens in person, I do want to find out how motion capture in conjunction with live stage presence worked out for the shows conducted by Jo Mangan of The Performance Corporation earlier this year. I also want to ask Gareth Lee of Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and Ronan McCabe of Animation Ireland , about how rapid animation development using motion capture streaming into 3D real-time engines such as Unreal Engine would alter both the storyboard elements of animation design and training.
Why? In the last 48 hours, the landscape of the Irish television industry has fundamentally altered, and the need for collaboration of all aspects of animation and development is going to be paramount. And, well, the timing of Culture Crush could not be better.
... See you there.
#CultureCrush2023 #filmproduction #virtualproduction #filmstudio #animation
Tomorrow is the first day of November, or the month of Samhain, and tonight is Óiche Shamhna, Halloween. It is said, that the door to the other world opens tonight. As well as the door to a number of really good parties. The video below features performance capture created at AnamoLabs - Cork.
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2023-10-31
We recently worked with CyberTwin on their Samhain video to celebrate Halloween at Muckross House Research Library. Our team had the pleasure of being motion captured, directed by Gerald O Brien, using The Captury Live system at AnamoLABS™ - Cork.
All post processing and clean up was done using iClone 3D and rendered and assembled using Unity 3D's HDRP render pipeline. Check out the amazing video at the link below - can you spot us?
#motioncapture #3Danimation #halloweenfun #CyberTwin #halloween #samhain
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2023-10-24
We're not moving as much as we used to (and it shows).
Mobility training will help to reduce the damage.
Image created using Captury Live 3D Markerless Motion Capture streamed into UnReal Engine
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2023-10-18
Anamo Blog 1
The Cork Film Centre was refurbished and reopened in 2012 as a base for the Cork Screen Commission. It closed again a few years later and remained closed until its ownership was transferred to Cork City Council following the 2019 city boundary extension.
The first intake of students were the stars of the show as a new secondary school - Le Chéile - opened its doors for the first time in a former film centre in Ballincollig, Cork.