Making The Linden Performer
The Process
Motion Capture Session 1
The First Performance
In this scene, it is Mary's first time dancing for an audience, as well as one of her first times dancing ever. To convey this, our choreographer performed these early dances almost entirely improvisationally, with only a few simple key directions such as "a big dramatic spin as the music swells" (00:25)
We went on to utilize this technique throughout the entire motion capture process, varying how much each scene was rehearsed based on how comfortable and well practiced the character would be with each new experience.
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The Linden Performer
A marionette dreams of becoming a performer. When she gets the chance to live that life, she starts to realize that it's not what she thought it would be.
Mary-Onette
The Early Animatic
This rough animatic was used early on during pre-production, and contains the original scratch track that was used during the motion capture process. The final music and all additional previsualization was done in 3D during early production.
Created with: Storyboard Pro, Musescore, Audacity