Week Four - Officially Start

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We made a huge shift from planning to starting to turn our project into a reality this week. We broke into three parts for this week again. The sensor group, the music/visual effect group, and the motion group. I'm in the motion group, our goal for this week is to create a "video of a performer controlling a digital avatar with bodily movement." To be honest, this is my first time working with the mocap and I have no idea of where I'm going to start. I tried to find the source I knew to create a video as described, but it seemed very different from other team members' work, yet my effort was still accepted by others, which made me feel more confident and encouraged in group work. The video below is me using video editing software to let my virtual avatar do the facial expression tracking. We made a huge progress this week, but I didn't have a chance to contribute more, hope I can do more next week.


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we will continue our work based on our group.

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