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Reverse Shadow Theatre is an installation created with the Animata real-time animation editor.

Wayang Kulit is the indonesian shadow puppet theatre, in which finely carved and painted leather puppets move behind a screen making the audiance see their shadows only. In our installation the situation is reversed. The role of the elaborate puppets is emphasized, while the visitor is a mere shadow trying to control the puppets by her movements.

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Bence Samu - animation, video documentation, programming
Peter Nemeth, Gabor Papp - programming
Agoston Nagy - sounds

Reverse Shadow Theatre and Animata were developed in Kitchen Budapest in 2007-2008. For more information please visit animata.kibu.hu and kibu.hu.

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  • Karen Abad plus 3 years ago
    This is sooo soo cool!
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  • Vladimir 3 years ago
    amazing, but...you only use animata? or something else? like, processing or vvvv?
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  • gabor papp 3 years ago
    thanks vladimir.

    we use eyesweb for motion tracking. then we use processing to modify the points coming from eyesweb, because the proportions of the users differ from the proportions of the puppets. at 1:40 you can see our setup. eyesweb is in the top-left corner, the acquired skeleton is in the top-right, animata and processing at the bottom.
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  • Vladimir 3 years ago
    OHHHH, dude you are a genius, then i suppouse what you send the video data into animata through OSC...maybe im wrong, but is out there some info or tutorial about it?, i work with vvvv, maybe exist some manner to do the same, but your work is a great advance....congratulations
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  • Vladimir 3 years ago
    what kind of OSC messages receive Animata and how?, because the vvvv can track video too, and define the silouette too, but, do i need "rig" the video too?

    do you "rig" the video in eyes web?
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  • gabor papp 3 years ago
    there are no tutorials at the moment, but we are working on some. i suggest that you subscribe to the animata-users mailing list at lists.kitchenbudapest.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/animata-users

    the osc messages are described in this mailing list post: lists.kitchenbudapest.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/private/animata-users/2008-April/000015.html

    what do you mean by rigging the video? animata works with images and skeletons attached to them. we tried to made the control system really simple. you can animate the bones of the skeleton to make the puppets move. and of course, you have to tell processing or vvvv which part of the motion capture data should be sent to which bone by naming the bones and sending osc messages by name.
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  • karla 3 years ago
    i love it, thats such a wonderful idea and beautifully realised! go on guys!
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  • gabor papp 3 years ago
    thanks karla
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  • Terry Ibele 2 years ago
    looks very fun.
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  • YUSEOKH HONG 1 year ago
    that's very hot~
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