Mocap with your Webcam

Dance with a virtual body through your webcam and the RADiCAL AI-powered motion capture software!

Mocap with your Webcam Workshop

Workshop Details:

Date: Monday, January 25th, 2021 (7pm – 8pm) CST
Location: Online – Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Cost: FREE
Limit: 100 participants

Instructor: Freya Björg Olafson

Designed with contemporary artists and dancers in mind; this will begin with an overview of motion capture techniques available today. The virtual hands-on component of the workshop will explore RADiCAL, an AI-powered motion capture tool, to generate data files from web camera recordings and apply the data to animate readymade avatars or 3D objects in Unity (free software).  Workshop open to all skill levels, no previous experience is necessary.

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About the Instructor:

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR,  painting, and performance. Olafson’s work has been exhibited and performed internationally at the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), SECCA – SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), and the LUDWIG museum (Budapest). Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC – Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York), and Counterpulse (San Francisco). Olafson holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute / Danube University and joined the Dance Department at York University as an Assistant Professor in screendance in July 2017.

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This VP workshop is in collaboration with Young Lungs Dance Exchange. Young Lungs Dance Exchange is a not-for-profit artist-run support organization committed to the development, creation and presentation of contemporary dance and performance on Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, MB.

YLDE Funders:

Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

Note about RADiCAL software: https://getrad.co/core-free-trial/ for free you can use the trail for a month which automatically converts into a monthly plan (when you download your files). So participants will need to unsubscribe after the workshop if they don’t want to keep their access to the application. The time length recording limit is one minute long video exported per week.