Motion Study of Étienne-Jules
Marey’s Chronophotography in Second Life
This piece is inspired a lot by Étienne-Jules
Marey’s Chronophotography, who is a French scientist, physiologist, and
chronophotographer. I am interested in the idea of motion study in Marey’s
chronophotography, but instead of showing 2D still movements, I want to
reanimate the gestures and experiment with different types of motions in 3D.
For instance, in Second Life, avatar, object, texture, even environment can be
modified into motions.
I build a tunnel-like structure, which
contains five spheres in Second Life. Each sphere has a texture of animated gif
file I made from Marey’s chronophotography. The scale of the whole piece is
relatively big, and inside of it there are five spheres, which are divided into
individual display spaces. Inside the spaces, installations, photographs,
animations are shown according to the outside texture I made from a certain
Marey’s piece.
Technically, I made the animated gif files in Photoshop
and upload the gifs online as webpages, and inside Second Life, I use those
webpages as textures. I also use Dazstudio to do bvh animation files.
Here is a documentary video, but I will edit it later on.
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