UMV

Title

You Music Video (uMV)

Description

Motivation

I've had interest in rotoscoping and animation in videos and dance for a while - and I'm interesting in mixing them, live.

Interactive paradigm

As the person dances/moves, animation or other features will react to their movement, enhancing it on video, and basically creating a music video on the spot.

Technical Description

The person would be caught and tracked on camera, and we could use frame differencing to track the magnitude of his or her movements and the pre-coded/drawn animations would react accordingly. Background images can be added and changed over time to improve the effect.

Visual Concept

Reference:

http://www.motiontheory.com/work/nike_presto-04

View video 'Urban Canvas'.

http://www.motiontheory.com/work/nike_flow

View video 'Flow'.

Documentation

Screenshots:

uMV_windmills:

uMV_street:

uMV_black:

Source Code:

-coding consists of initialization of camera, bitmap manipulating to create motion-detecting/color/background editing effects, and some animating code.

-camera code and motion detecting code is adapted from http://drawlogic.com/2007/10/17/motion-detection-in-flash-as2-and-as3-and-c/, with some changes for color and background editing effects.

CAMERA: -sets up webcam and shows security panel