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PROJECT SCOPE OF WORK:
As part of my DIVA 300 course at the at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, I am doing an internship in the school's Motion Capture studio.

With this opportunity, I want to incorporate elite CrossFit athletes and coaches into the Motion Capture studio to serve both as a diagnostic tool to help provide real-time live data to athletes and coaches on their body dynamics as they do individual exercises, but to also merge this data into an artistic format as well. I am envisioning final outcomes to be put into a gallery show here in the Emily Carr concourse gallery in which everyone's pieces are shown.

Using this overall theme of, "Motion Capture", each participating artist will be tasked to create their own individual artistic piece from a range of cross-discipline media which will then be combined with everyone else's to create a greater whole for the gallery show. In addition, on opening night we could also bring in some CrossFit athletes to also perform various exercises as a live performance piece for the audience.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS:
We are looking for as many cross-discipline artists as we can get who want to participate in this project:

- classical animators coming into the Motion Capture studio and doing freehand gesture/motion drawings of the athletes

- 3D animators looking for experience working with both the Motion Capture studio itself and the corresponding data pipeline to transfer the information gathered from the studio to their 3D applications (Maya, XSI, 3DS)

- photographers doing photo-documentation of the process setting up the space and capturing the athletes' workout performances

- musicians to produce musical scores for the video pieces

- sound designers to record the performance and setup process along with providing sound effect recordings to the 3D animators

- Processing programmers who want to work with the data capture and create cross-discipline art pieces with it

- film producers and editors to work with the animators to create finalized video pieces

- designers working on creating the polish and identity of the project as a whole and combining everyone's individual contributions within the overall theme of, "Motion Capture"

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LINKS AND INSPIRATION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzPvaNp3lzw&fmt=18
- CrossFit Vancouver's "Cassius Clay" Workout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdKfvA0qruA&fmt=18
- Crossfit Vancouver Sub 3 Min Fran workout

http://www.crossfit.ca
- CrossFit Vancouver homepage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZFvQ1Uv9k&fmt=18
- part 1 of a major inspiration for me and possible artistic flavour to emulate - Norman McLaren's, "Pas de Deux"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQIfPbeoBw&fmt=18
- part 2 of Norman McLaren's, "Pas de Deux"

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PROJECT SCOPE OF WORK:
As part of my DIVA 300 course at the at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, I am doing an internship in the school's Motion Capture studio.

With this opportunity, I want to incorporate elite CrossFit athletes and coaches into the Motion Capture studio to serve both as a diagnostic tool to help provide real-time live data to athletes and coaches on their body dynamics as they do individual exercises, but to also merge this data into... (read more)