Motion Capture

This is definitely one of the most challenging shoots I've had in a while. The goal was to capture motion that only a really high tech computer could see, of a person wearing a black suit in a darkened black hole of a warehouse. I was sweating it the whole time, but in the end I got a few that worked.



Inside a converted expo center warehouse in downtown Orlando, UCF students learning to be video gamers share space with the likes of Derek Jeter and Tiger Woods and dancers filming moves for the latest Hannah Montana video game. The motion capture studio at UCF's Center for Emerging Media, the largest of its kind on the East Coast, is a partnership between UCF, the city of Orlando and the studio that made films including "300" and "Beowulf. UCF Admissions and Enrollment Coordinator Shawnna Adamson goes through a range of exercises in the studio while wearing a MOCAP suit with 52 motion-capture markers on it, to show how it tracks her movements which are being digitized and captured by a computer.