Working with artist ALPARR, I motion captured his performance and mapped it onto a custom character.
Artist
ALPARR
Timeline
1 week
Role
Motion Capture Artist, Creature Modeler, & Realtime Artist
Project Overview
For artist and musician ALPARR, I created a character that performs with them, complete with reactive lights that sync with the audio midi data.
Challenge/Process
ALPARR's performances are live, with performance and audio created on the spot. In order to create a visual that was able to be reactive to their movement and live audio mixing, the creature needed to be rigged and update live based on motion capture data, and lights needed to update based on audio. This led to the project living in Unreal Engine for it's ability to take in motion capture data and sync with Ableton.
Results
The final project allows for the visual to be reused in performances, never looking the same.