The combination of dance, music and animation is something so exciting and attractive. It seems that the
beauty of dance is attractive enough by itself but the opportunity that animation can provide in this field
is unbelievable.
Using new digital achievements can improve the captured movement conceptually and visually.
In this project we used mocap for two reasons:
1. We wanted to have a real dance.
2. We could use mocap data as our source to manipulate them in other software like After Effects to
change them based on our concept and atmosphere that we wanted in our animation.
This project gave us the chance to develop an animation using very advanced technology – the Xsens suit
and to collaborate with professional dancers from the Codarts Academy. In this situation we thought it
would be interesting to create an image where we put the act of dancing into fantastical scenery, something
that would be hardly possible to see in real life. We wanted to create something magical to look at
just like ink into water.
The start point of our concept was the similarity between movement of liquid or smoke with dance. Dancing
a drop of ink in the water is so mysterious or watching the movement of smoke in sunlight is magical.
so we decided to use this similarity in our animation. In one hand our film is similar to an abstract
animation in some aspects but on the other hand we fallowed a kind of story line; separating and joining
together.
As a drop of ink or smoke easily expand in the water or in the air, our dancing figures split and expand in
their environment but when they contact and touch each other they will be one thing again. It is exactly
the same as when two drops of ink contact each other.
movie will be ready soon. :D
a work done by Laura Dumitru and Setareh Goodarzi
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