Project Synopsis
Mission Future: Arizona 2045 is a 2,500-square-foot interactive exhibition developed by Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Arizona Science Center, NASA, and numerous additional local and national partners. Mission Future integrates authentic Earth and space science, imaginative storytelling, an immersive environment, and hands-on activities to explore what Arizona might be like in the year 2045. Told through the perspective of five diverse characters from the future, the exhibition explores some of the ways climate change will affect life on our home planet, as well as some of the opportunities future humans will have to study, live, and work off Earth. The exhibition opened in February 2023 for long-term display at the Arizona Science Center.
My Role
Of the five characters, I was responsible for directing and carrying out the motion capture for AILI, the Artificial Intelligence Learning Investigator.
The process involved learning how the Rokoko SmartSuit Pro works, training and facilitating the actress hired with how the suit functions, calibrating the suit to sync with the skeleton, recording and cleaning up the Motion Capture data, live-linking the recorded data to a Metahuman in Unreal Engine and recording sequence clips of the Metahuman performing the Motion Capture actions.
The process involved learning how the Rokoko SmartSuit Pro works, training and facilitating the actress hired with how the suit functions, calibrating the suit to sync with the skeleton, recording and cleaning up the Motion Capture data, live-linking the recorded data to a Metahuman in Unreal Engine and recording sequence clips of the Metahuman performing the Motion Capture actions.