PASociety++at++aol.com
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:07:42 -0400 (EDT)
THE (PAS), SILICON GRAPHICS
and others will co-host an exciting meeting / "Birds Of a Feather" Group
and Workshop in Motion Capture, Performance Animation and Real-Time
CG Characters during the upcoming SIGGRAPH'97 CONFERENCE in LA, CA.
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TIME & PLACE:
Tuesday, August 5th in the BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL, Beverly Hills, CA
in the MONACO ROOM. The meeting will begin at 8:00 PM and will
last until 10 PM.
MEETING AGENDA:
This meeting / workshop gives participants intensive hands-on
experience with nearly all commercial motion capture technologies
currently available: mechanical, optical, and electromagnetic.
Sponsoring exhibitors include:
- Motion Analysis: multi-camera optical tracking system
- Polhemus: electromagnetic body motion tracking system
- Analogus: mechanical body motion tracking machine
- X-Ist Realtime/Vierte-Art: Optical Face Tracking
Audience members will split into four groups and rotate through a
set of stations where they will have a chance to directly interact
with the technologies.
Realtime animation software vendors will bring their latest and best
characters to the session:
- Alias/Wavefront: Poweranimator/Maya
- Protozoa: Alive!
- SimGraphics: VActor
- X-Ist Realtime/Vierte-Art: Vuppetmaster
Ron Fischer, Realtime Animation Specialist - Silicon Graphics
and Bay Area-PAS Chapter Director, will direct this exciting evening
event and Performance Animation / Motion Capture workshop.
Richard Cray, Founding Director of the PAS encourages all performing
artists to attend this unique, hands-on opportunity for exposure to
these new tools for creative expression. Richard will be on hand to
welcome PAS members and their guests and answer questions.
This meeting is sponsored by: Silicon Graphics, Motion-Analysis,
Polhemus, Analogus, X-Ist Realtime, Alias/Wavefront, Protozoa,
SimGraphics Engineering and the Performance Animation Society.
ALL ARE WELCOME, Admission is FREE, compliments of Silicon Graphics
the sponsoring vendors and the Performance Animation Society.
Please join us for this exciting SGI / PAS / SIGGRAPH get together!
For more information please vist the Performance Animation Society
website at:
www.pasociety.org
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THE PERFORMANCE ANIMATION SOCIETY: *
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"IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF PERFORMING ARTISTS" *
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PLEASE PAS the word !!
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