The story is based on Pandiya dynasty, it should be an interesting one!
The story is based on Pandiya dynasty, it should be an interesting one!
Motion Capture
Introduction :
Motion capture has roots starting from the 70's which was widely used in the military. Its normaly addressed as MOCAP. It has its own strengths and weakness - which I will not be covering here, neither will I talk about its origin keeping in mind the interest of the audience. We are interested in Kochadaiiyan and the MOCAP.
So, basically there are 3 types of mocap :
1/ Mechanical - The performer wears a gear (includes gloves, arms, helmet etc) where the imbedded structure is hooked to his back. It has its own limitations like position and pointing of the performer which degrades the calibrations and has a big drawback on the calculation of the rotations as there is no absolute position. What it means in simple sense is that - each and every movement must be pre-written, so that each position is defined and the performer must do the same action on the various positions he takes to globally capture a 3D (360°) movement.
2/ Optical - The performer wears reflective dots (markers) that are followed by several cameras. The information is then triangulated with the markers using the mocap technology innovators like Vicon (tools - Cara & Blade). Its uses the physics term "conducting" to capture the emittings or reflections. This method is more flexible than the Mechanical mocap as the performer is free to move without any cables attached to him. The main drawback are the dots (markers) - the performer has to be careful not to interrupt its transmissions, else, it would result in the failure of the capture for that particular body. In these cases the whole act has to be redone as there is no possible corrections if there is no image.
3/ Electromagnetic - The performer wears a set of magnetic receivers which tracks his position thru static magnetic transmitter. The major problem here is the restriction with respect to distance. The magnetism decreases when the distance increases. The technology improvement has produced wireless magnetic systems but still the performer has to wear a heavy and bulky suit. It can be noted here that it’s one of the basic and primary mocap which was used in the military.
There are sub categories for mocap, for exemple : biofeedback sensing which measures bodily movement from the heart, brain, retina, eyes, skin, and muscles extensively used in medical, sports & music (let’s not see all the various available ones as this post is already getting bigger)
How Motion Capture works :
In a full body motion capture, the performer is glued with sensors (markers) in selected places of the body. A collective set of markers are configured into segment bodies with respect to the performers weight, body structure and influence (degrees of freedom). The real-time movements of performers like blinking, breathing, hand gestures, or the secondary actions like walking, foot hitting the ground & all the minute movements associated with such actions are captured live. The most tedious part are capturing the expressions. The mocap technology used (like Vicon) has inbuilt program components which optimizes the capture of the expression making it look more interesting on screen. Finally you got the voice recognition systems which allow almost real-time synchronization of mouth movements with words. On real time capture it will be out of sync due to the lapse between movement’s capture and words (remember lightning strikes before thunder concept). So what they do is they store the sound in the audio banks for information and reproduce it (using Rasul Pookutti ... LoL) and mix it with the images. Here again they use the ancient methods of dubbing to correct the lags or put back the sync. These are 2 things talked about KSR in his interview. As the mocap is usually associated with movement and not sound waves, much attention should be given to the audio bank. If it goes missing or not recorded it would turns the whole situation upside down and I suppose you will not have another choice but reshoot that particular scene. This is why I was talking about the problems while corrections.
Kochadaiiyan connection (What I can come up with, keeping in mind the limited infos circulating about the making) :
Its Optical mocap. I would bet on the Vicon Capture Technology using Cara. Cara is designed to make motion pictures of any size to bring characters to life through advanced facial tracking and capture. It is well versed for producing high-quality character realism. Whereas Blade is its optimization. You could have seen the clips of making of the movie where the actors were roaming about in green suit with dots on their faces and something clipped before their face. So you have your Optical green suit, the markers and the camera. Using wireless technology the information triangulated between them is captured. And then using the softwares the audio bank is constructed simultaneously.
Synthesis
Mocap is nothing but capturing full body movements, facial expressions and tracking any movement of environmental objects connected in real-time. High accuracy 3D motion tracking are used to track the multitude of sensing every angle precisely and for high speed motions, 4-tracker system is used to continuous register calibration of the capture area thru sub-millisecond latency data output for perfect real-time capture.
This brief (Nov I again used this word ... just kidding) post is just a drop on mocap. Now we are all set to discuss about Kochadaiiyan without bringing in other movies as the only source of information.
The teaser gives some hope. I had absolutely given up on this movie long time ago.
Without going into too much details, thalaivar movie after 3 long years in itself is enuff!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokee
oorukai , chicken kabab etc etc .. padam release anna perragu peasalam..
Official teaser has viewed by 1.25 Million views in a day+ hours....
Hubla psezahaya pagela padicha theirum... Chendramukhilam oothikichunu sonnanga....
Teaser is OK, at least we can get to see some kind of hope that the movie is going to be released soon within 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Don't get it Params.. Chola Dynasty-na interesting-ah irukkaadhaa?
In addition, Ambulimama & bala mithra storoies are great to make as a movie for kids.
if so, then there is no point in releasing teasers/trailers for any movies..Quote:
Originally Posted by Thala_rasigan
besides, i was referring to the whole process of 7 years where the daughter just used rajini's name to get away with her laziness..
No bro, I did not mean it like that , Ayirathil Oruvan was "Primarily" based upon Chola dynasty, (though it had a pandian dynasty elements to it), so it would be interesting to see a story primarily based on Pandian dynsaty nu sonnEn that's all :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinemarasigan