Dr Jose Serra will be presenting a paper at Eurographics 2018 in April. Dr Serra said “Facial animation is a crucial element of how computer graphics generated characters are brought to life and how we develop empathy with them. A smile placed at the correct moment can have more meaning...
CAMERA was delighted to open it’s studio doors to some of the dogs at Bath Cats and Dogs home in December. CAMERA is creating a library of movement data from different dog breeds, to make animal animations in films and video games more realistic. Films such as the Planet of...
This has been hatching a while! CAMERA is delighted to support the Minerva’s Owls of Bath 2018. This is a major public art sculpture trail featuring 100 individually decorated owl sculptures displayed across the World Heritage city of Bath and surrounding region from June – September 2018. Sculptor Alan Dun,...
The REWIND virtual reality experience for Welsh National Opera “Magic Butterfly” has won the FMBE Gold Award for Creative Technology. The Team at CAMERA collaborated on technical production elements. The judges noted “the accessible nature of their creative ideas applied in a way that were clearly achievable and replicable for...
With many thanks to CAMERA team member Dr Yongliang Yang for giving us this insight into the paper published at Chi 2017. The availability of commodity 3D extruder pen allows direct drawing of 3D wire sculptures for novice users. However, the lack of spatial and structural cues among individual pen...
The University’s art centre The Edge joined with Arts Council England for a special event on Tuesday 31 October, looking at collaboration between art and research and its success stories. Darren Henley also visited the Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications, meeting Director Darren Cosker for a...
Award-winning VR/AR content production agency, REWIND, collaborated with CAMERA for an innovative motion capture job on behalf of Welsh National Opera (WNO). The project involved capturing body and face motion data from world renowned soprano, Karah Son, whilst she performed the much-loved aria, ‘Un Bel Di,’ from the opera, Madam Butterfly....
CAMERA was delighted to welcome back students and staff from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) for a second set of motion capture workshops building on last year’s successful series. The initial session earlier this month enabled the acting students to experience a motion capture shoot for the first time,...
Last month, the CAMERA team were joined by Tobias Rasmussen from Ralph Allen School, Bath as part of his Year 10 work experience placement. We’re very pleased to hear that Tobias enjoyed an opportunity to gain some hands-on experience in our motion capture studio and learn about the inner workings of CAMERA!...
With the cricket season in full swing, now cricket fans can try out their batting skills in the comfort of their own homes in a virtual reality game, developed by Stickee in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bath. Researchers at CAMERA, the University’s Centre for the Analysis of Motion,...
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