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CG Stills
Hu Yuan ("Original Tiger") model
Zi model images (models by Victor Hugo Queiroz)
Yeah! Zi springs off the Hallway wall
Bok Choi runs.
Grandmaster prepares
The young monk Zi faces off
CG Hallway Set using Spherical Harmonics
CG Hallway reflection Environment (Spherical render)
Sets and Mocap
Shooting miniatures in China rather than using helicopters.
Using chrome balls to capture sets and lighting environments. This chromeball was shot on the Li River, Yangshou, China.
Director Kory Martin Juul in a Phasespace body capture suit with Bok Choi.
Kory's body moved according to the Voice Actor's performances to breath life into over 30 characters - both large and small.
Each character's facial performance is uniquely driven by the voiceover talent.
The facial data was recorded at the same time as the dialog.
The facial and body data is then combined into one seamless performance.
VoiceOver Talent Facial Capture Photos
The taped and superglued face of a man of many voices - Erik Braa!
Donna Turner - voice of the Crane Lady - getting ready to give a great performance in the booth!
Jesse Owen Tarver - voice of the Disciple - all wired up for his lines, literally!
Byron Lambie - voice of the Village Headman - relaxing after a dialog and facial capture recording session.
Additional Press Photos
'White Tiger Legend' martial artists Kory Martin Juul and Alice Kung with Zhenwei Wang from the latest Karate Kid.
Our 'Year of the Dragon' kicked off with a day with the Beijing Wushu Team.
Alice Kung - one of our motion capture stunt performers playing "the Crane Lady" - trained alongside the famous troupe several years ago in Beijing.
The team's earliest members included Jet Li, and most recently Zhenwei Wang from the latest Karate Kid.
We're very happy to have Alice's Wushu skills on set and in our film!
'White Tiger Legend' is breaking new ground and attracting attention from around the world.
Here is an article from the popular Brazilian Magazine - SuperInteresting (SuperInteressante)
Do It Yourself
The cost reduction of digital filming has already allowed mere mortals - if you're tech suave -
to become Youtube celebrities, with just a cell phone camera.
But the age of "do it yourself" is just starting. Soon you will be able to use the technologies of motion capture,
like Avatar, to create proper animation. Even more: you can not only act as the hero,
but also the villain, or the best friend, all the way to the shelf at the supermarket.
By collecting the movements of actors, these systems allow you to bring the virtual characters to life.
So what's new? For Avatar, the technology cost was between $1000 US and $10,000 a second,
with Phasespace the price is knocked down to $10 a second.
This has already allowed the animator Kory Martin Juul to direct his first film, White Tiger Legend -
a martial arts animation on target for 2012. He recorded all the characters while interpreting
the great performances of the voice actors, who had recorded their dialogue previously.
