A "photoshop" for dance
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Rotosketch is an intuitive tool for sketching, doodling and notating on top of video, such that the marks that are made are linked in time with the video. This allows the user to draw strokes along the the axis of time, as well as the normal x and y axes, and for those strokes to augment, analyze, interpret, or even obliterate a video sequence.
The software, created by Zachary Lieberman together with Scott de la Hunta, and Susan Rethorst, explores how technology might be used to facilitate the dance making process in a creative and organic manner. "We were constantly asking ourselves, what would the "photoshop" for dance look like?" writes Lieberman. Tutorial on the website explaining how to try the alpha version of rotosketch. Via splines in space. Don't miss another work by Lieberman: Drawn - an installation for hands and ink. See also its concert/performance version: Drawings with a mind of their own. |
Oh, yes - Zack's work is trully fantastic. I especially love the "Drawn" piece. You really need to see installation to appreciate it, though. Zack has come up with a kind of simplified arcade-like box interface for it, so you can imagine where all the kids at the exhibition crowd!
Zack comes over to Madrid fairly often. At the end of this month he'll be leading a workshop at the MediaLabMadrid. I'm really looking forward to the workshop - it'll include work on Processing, PureData, and Arduino. I'm writing it up on my blog:
over there.
Best,
Kamen
The upcoming movie "A Scanner Darkly" based on the novel by Philp K. Dick uses this software to animate over the live action footage of the actors in minimal costume, make-up and sets. The final product looks very interesting.
I've been doing this exact thing as a parody of digital art for the last 3 years. I call my version VideoPaint
I just did it as a life dance performance for toronto's Images Festival
you can read an interview with me about it here Wavelength Article
"It's like painting only much much better..."