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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren at Siggraph/JPL 3/12/91
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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:59:31 GMT
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In article <7989@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>So he took an S-VHS camera and himself into a dark room at his
>house and photographed himself eight times singing the song. The 
>frames from the camera were then digitized and mapped, in LightWave,
>onto the tumbling,rotating, and morphing 3D objects.  If you watch the
>video VERY closely you'll notice that the animation is moving at 30fps
>while the singing Todd face is doubled up from 15fps.

So are you saying that there are only 8 different frames of Todd singing
or that he made 8 complete videos of himself singing? If he made complete
videos and didn't just capture single frames, do you know how he digitized
the image sequences from the videos which were to be mapped into Lightwave?
The method that comes to mind to me would be to play back the video on
a good industrial or better VCR capable of good quality single frame playback
and frame grab the images one at a time with the Toaster. This is very
tedious though. Also, what did he do to sync the rendered images to the music?
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