Welcome
to a book talk about character animation and virtual spaces
in Virtools:
"Creating
Interactive 3D Actors and their Worlds, without writing code" by Jean-Marc
Gauthier,
Friday, nov 30
at 6:30pm @ ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
"Jean-Marc
Gauthier has decided in this season of bits to populate the
digital with
characters that can act, that can play, that can respond in
coherent and
interesting ways to their human creators and collaborators. His
interest in
not in abandoning the traditions of puppetry, theater, and
cinema for the
"intelligent agents" and "information avatars" of the new
information age.
Gauthier's focus is on the stage, the podium, the room--an
architecture of
the possible. In it, the progress of millenia, of us
representing ourselves
differently, will be continued, experienced,
reworked, and experimented. And
he invites us all with access to the
digital, including children, to
participate, making it as easy as possible
(particularly for the adults).
With Gauthier we are not counting polygons
but possibilities."
from the
foreword by Fred Ritchin
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