My reaction to video art is usually ‘meh’, but this one is absolutely fantastic. This is easily the best piece of video art I’ve seen in years. I re-watched it a dozen times already. Over 1,800,000 views on Youtube.
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.
Bot & Dolly produced this work to serve as both an artistic statement and technical demonstration. It is the culmination of multiple technologies, including large scale robotics, projection mapping, and software engineering. We believe this methodology has tremendous potential to radically transform theatrical presentations, and define new genres of expression.
Wow. That’s super impressive. The camera itself must be mounted on one of those robots to get precision tracking, but they added jitter to make it look more like a human camera that we are used to. The alternative would be real-time rendering of the scenes with motion tracking of the camera’s position which strikes me as much less likely.
Anyway, it immediately reminded me of this video which shows a much simpler example of parallax like this. The camera in this case is tracked using a WiiMote sensor. The good part starts around 2:20.
Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to render in real time is insignificant next to the power of storytelling.
Seconded. It’s not clear what’s happening at first, so let me reiterate—it’s all shot with one camera, without added CGI work or anything. If you were in the room, you’d see the same things.
Btw, I had no idea Video Art was a term. Anything else you’d recommend from this genre?
My reaction to video art is usually ‘meh’, but this one is absolutely fantastic. This is easily the best piece of video art I’ve seen in years. I re-watched it a dozen times already. Over 1,800,000 views on Youtube.
Box
From the Youtube video description:
Wow. That’s super impressive. The camera itself must be mounted on one of those robots to get precision tracking, but they added jitter to make it look more like a human camera that we are used to. The alternative would be real-time rendering of the scenes with motion tracking of the camera’s position which strikes me as much less likely.
Anyway, it immediately reminded me of this video which shows a much simpler example of parallax like this. The camera in this case is tracked using a WiiMote sensor. The good part starts around 2:20.
Yes, camera is mounted on a smaller robot, and you can even see it in the video. The motion feels natural because it’s motion-captured.
As for the real-time rendering of scenes with motion tracking, here’s an interesting Star Wars demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsFEMDceNg
The top comment on that link:
Seconded. It’s not clear what’s happening at first, so let me reiterate—it’s all shot with one camera, without added CGI work or anything. If you were in the room, you’d see the same things.
Btw, I had no idea Video Art was a term. Anything else you’d recommend from this genre?
It would appear to me that the effect would be completely ruined if you were anywhere but the programmed location of the recording camera.
Which is why we get to see that camera’s (pretty great) view.