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Plan for today Team Assignments Another OpeningAnother show Checkpoint Deliveries Team Assignments Announcement Announcement Local student SIGGRAPH chapter Casey Reas, creator of processing will be at RIT All

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Another Opening…Another show

Team Assignments

Plan for today

  • Team Assignments
  • Checkpoint Deliveries

Announcement

  • Local student SIGGRAPH chapter

– All areas of graphics in RIT

  • CS, IT, SOFA, New Media, SOD

– Looking for common meeting time for

  • rganizational meeting
  • Friday? 1-2?

– Interested? Please e-mail me.

Announcement

  • Casey Reas, creator of “processing” will be

at RIT

– April 7, 2005 – 6pm – 7A-1350 – http://newmedia.rit.edu/reas for registration.

Logistics

  • mycourses

– Team Groups in MESSAGES – Group contact sheet

  • Alternate contact (AIM, phone, etc)
  • Best way to contact
  • Info from art side
  • Will place in COLLABORATIVE FILES

– ERESERVE password

  • Placed in COLLABORATIVE FILES

Logistics

  • Accounts and access

– SAMBA accounts – Access to Breakout Room 2

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Logistics

  • Human Participants

– MoCap actor (several volunteers) – Stage Manager (Alex) – Cue Operator – Motion Controller(s) – Musician(s) – Ushers

Logistics

  • The MUPPETS Gurus

– Dave Parks – lead developer

  • Schedule on mycourses.
  • TR 12-3 office hours for VT.

– Jon Heise – Networking

  • Questions for design team?

– Meet on Tuesday. – Keep in mind as we go through assignments.

  • Questions before we start?

Team Assignments

  • Recall the teams

– Audio – FilmModeling – MoCap – Motion Blending – Recorder – Staging

General Comments

  • E-mail

– Feedback about assignments. – Teams + individual tasks. – Grad “extras”

  • Team Leader

– Coordination – Documentation (assembling) – Moderator during final exam

More general comments

  • Checkpoint deliverables

– Aggressive – Not cast in stone – Adjusted as needed.

  • Lots to do in 8 weeks!

Checkpoints

  • Checkpoint 1

– Focus on “Functionality” – March 29th

  • Checkpoint 2

– Focus on “Networking” – April 11th

  • Checkpoint 3

– Focus on “the Performance” – April 27th

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Performance Schedule

  • May 2nd: Tech run: cue to cue
  • May 4th: Dress Rehearsal
  • May 9th: Dress Rehearsal
  • May 11th: Performance (during class time)
  • Finals week: Post-mortem (final period)
  • Finals week: encore performance (?)

Team Assignments

  • Are we ready?
  • Would the real XXX, please stand up!

Team Audio

  • Responsible for audio presentation
  • Members:

– Jonathan Lareau (team lead / MIDI development) – Shawn Smith (audio “environment”/ development) – Jonathan Lane (audio “environment”/ development)

Team Audio

  • Checkpoint 1:

– MIDI Player – from MIDI files and live performance (using sound card as orchestra) – Design of audience and actor sonic environment.

  • Music
  • Effects
  • Spatial sound

Team Audio

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Integrated sound in MUPPETS environment

  • WAV, MIDI, Spatial
  • Networked: one control…all computers

– Sound cues

  • Infrastructure for defining, storing, triggering

– In conjunction with Staging

  • Cued sound vs. sound actor sound

Team Audio

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Audio content for performance

  • All sound effects
  • All music
  • All sound cues set and ready

– Sound environment set and ready

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Team Audio

  • Things you might need:

– MIDI instruments – Musicians to play them. – Sound effects libraries – MIDI libraries.

Team Film Modeling

  • Responsible for creating “old time film”

look effect.

  • Members

– Christian Gray (team lead / research) – Chris Becker (shader development) – Scott Kitchin (image processing)

Team Film Modeling

  • Checkpoint 1:

– Film effect infrastructure

  • ANY effect within a MUPPETS world

– Mechanism in place (see Dave Parks)

  • Will build on this effect as quarter progresses

Team Film Modeling

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Networked: one control…all computers – More advanced effects – “Film Cues”

  • Infrastructure for defining, storing, triggering

– In conjunction with Staging

  • Turn effect on/off
  • Parameter settings
  • Frame rate settings / camera motion jitter
  • “Place cards”

Team Film Modeling

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Even More advanced effects

  • Final model.

– “Film Cues” for performance

Team Film Modeling

  • Notes:

– Effect to be as close to reality as possible

  • Research on old time projection systems.
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Team MoCap

  • Responsible for integrating MoCap system.
  • Members:

– Jeremy King (co-lead) – Chris Orogvany (co-lead) – Owen Christesen (JNI) – Alex Jarocha-Ernst (development) – Andrew Maimone (moCap actor envrionment)

Team MoCap

  • Checkpoint 1:

– Basic functionality

  • Stick figure walking (badly) in MUPPETS
  • JNI Wrapper over ShapeWrap API
  • Interface to MUPPETS skelani system
  • Identify issues (talk to Dave Parks)
  • Identify human logistics (moCap profiles, etc)

– Plan for MoCap actor environment

  • Simple projections?, CAVE?, stereo glasses?

Team MoCap

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Functionality

  • Networked: one control…all computers
  • Refinement of system as needed
  • On virtual stage

– Work with staging and Motion Blending

– Human actor envionment

  • Implemented and ready to go.

Team MoCap

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Import Maya Model from Design team

  • Use importer created by MotionBlending

– Human / virtual world coordination

  • Stage Manager
  • Communication issues (walkie-talkies?)

Team MoCap

  • Logistics

– Things from Measurand

  • Video
  • API
  • E-mail support.

– Breakout Room 2 – work area

  • Please keep equipment in BOR2
  • Access – talk to Joanne
  • Final performance space TBD

Team Motion Blending

  • framework for prescripted animation
  • Members:

– Kristin Smith (lead / creative motion blending) – Alex Brazie (ambassador to creative team / MUPPETS skelani) – Bryan Hart (development / ambassador to staging) – Hao Yen (Maya importer)

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Team Motion Blending

  • Checkpoint 1:

– Maya importer

  • Models and animations
  • See Maya model in action in MUPPETS

– Specification of Motion/Gestures

  • Interface with creative team
  • “idle action”

– Mechanism for control

  • Infrastructure and GUI (Bryan / Alex)

Team Motion Blending

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Networked: one control…all computers – Definition of a “set/stage”

Team Motion Blending

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Performance data

  • All characters, animations, sets, stage elements

imported and ready to go.

Team Motion Blending

  • What you’ll need:

– Design team class schedules – Maya API – Maya “samples”

  • Most direct interaction with design team.

Team Recorder

  • Infrastructure for “recording” the

performance

  • Members:

– Alan Cenkus (co-lead) – Russell Morrisey (co-lead)

Team Recorder

  • Checkpoint 1:

– Nuts and bolts

  • Record a MUPPETS session on video

– Fancier nuts and bolts

  • Spec for “capturing” a performance
  • Talk to Dave Parks for ideas
  • Perhaps work within Cue Structure
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Team Recorder

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Fancier nuts and bolts realized

  • Implementation of scheme designed in Checkpoint

1.

  • Working in single user mode.

Team Recorder

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Networked nuts and bolts

  • System working in networked environment
  • “Record” and playback.

Team Recorder

  • What you’ll need:

– Machine with a good graphics card with video

  • utput

– Digital camcorder.

Team Staging

  • Infrastructure for defining and triggering

cues.

  • Members:

– Vinayak Suley (lead / design / Maya light importer) – Nate Bower (development / GUI) – Jonathan Romanowski (development / GUI)

Team Staging

  • Checkpoint 1:

– Working cues in MUPPETS

  • Minimal GUI
  • Support for

– Lighting cues – Staging cues – Sound cues – Actor control (Bryan) – Film filter control / placecards

Team Staging

  • Checkpoint 2:

– Working cues in networked MUPPETS

  • Networked: one control…all computers

– Save / Load set of predefined cues – GUIs completed for

  • Lights
  • Staging / scene changes
  • Sound
  • Film Filters / placecards

– Maya light importer designed (Vin)

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Team Staging

  • Checkpoint 3:

– Performance data

  • Define all cues for show
  • Session with designer / stage manager / director
  • Maya lighting importer in use.

Team Staging

  • Logistics

– LOTS of interaction with other team. – Common infrastructure, details to vary.

Remainder of today

  • Group meetings
  • Team moCap

– Get BOR2 access / view video

  • Grad students

– Grad extra okay?

  • Let the show begin!
  • If you need something

– Please e-mail sooner rather than later.

Final notes

  • DISCUSSION boards on mycourses…

– Please use and read.

  • MESSAGES on mycourses

– Please use.

  • Contact info for contact sheet.

– Please email me additional contact info and preferred means of communication.

Questions… For next time

  • MUPPETS installation and demo
  • Last “full lecture”