Eyebeam will hold a large-scale, team-based digital storytelling event at its Chelsea, NY exhibition space from December 13th-Dec 16th. The project is being organized in collaboration with The Creators Project, a global arts and technology from Intel and Vice, and award-winning visual effects company Framestore.
The event, dubbed "New Cinema", will be the first event concentrating on team-based brainstorming, design, and systematic development of new hybrid digital storytelling methods which can shape the ways in which we think about possible futures of cinema. All projects will be realized by unorthodox methods and take on fresh creative coding approaches, commercial and open source software and hardware hacks, and "creative misuse" of the latest camera, sensor and computer technologies.
KinectToPin lets you record motion capture data with a Kinect camera and import it into After Effects. New 3D data import means your characters are no longer stuck facing the camera, audio playback during recording means multiple characters can stay in sync, and the the After Effects UI panel with automatic setup and rigging means you can be up and running in minutes. Created by Nick Fox-Gieg and Victoria Nece.
This is an attempt to implement the Lib-Ray video collection standard created by Terry Hancock. It's designed to present HD video at a quality comparable to Blu-ray, in an open format that plays in any standards-based web browser (that means Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, but not Internet Explorer). It's literally just some pages of HTML, a little JavaScript, and a folder full of video files. You can also use any Lib-Ray collection as a template to distribute your own videos, or add more functionality using JavaScript frameworks.
"Prior Art" is an animated short that uses Kinect motion capture to depict a friendly music contest gone horribly wrong—a musical duel between three robots and a flock of singing birds.