David Bowie Is Unreal

Infinity Festival November 7th 2019 in Hollywood.

This is a realtime avatar of Bowie in the Unreal Engine, captured 'live' using a Dynamixyz single infrared camera facial tracking system and an Xsens motion capture suit, powered by a HP Quadro computer and Intel laptop streaming the motion data, and displayed on an 8K Samsung screen. This is David's actual facial geometry, not a lookalike, and inspired by an iconic photograph of Ziggy Stardust taken in 1973 by Masayoshi Sukita. My Bowie performance artists face and body is being tracked in realtime and his motions and expressions are being re-targeted with custom build blend shapes onto David's face. As a live experience this is technologically unprecedented. If this is the results from a live capture, imagine what can be done with cleaned up motion data and animation for a rendered Ziggy performance. As for all the Bowie fans out there concerned that "all the nightmares came today", fear not. This creation is an act of devotion. I challenge anyone to out-Bowie me! Remember, this is not the first time Bowie has existed as an avatar. 20 years ago he appeared in the video game Omikron. And Bowie's final act of creation was an exploration of the myth of Lazarus. Time to wake up?

[spacepawdity]

Last night I had a dream that Nintendo announced that MoCap David Bowie would become an assist trophy in super smash bros ultimate. they advertised it by having Cuphead fly his plane around his head
while shooting pellets at him.

[screaminglordbyron]

Incredible and it does Bowie justice, give us more!

[spacepawdity]

I know I’m a couple days late but... happy birthday Mocap Ziggy!!!

[bad_uncle]

Nice looking. But I suspect if he tried to speak or do any substantial facial movements, it would betray the weaknesses in the technology. I won't be impressed until I see something other than the neutral expression on the cg face.