"moove!" pc/mac demo by fresh!mindworkz, released at NVISION 08, usa

Technical Info:

  Known issues:

  - Win95/98/ME not supported maybe works 
  - nVidia FX 5xxx series or older not supported 
  - Ati Radeon 9000 or older not supported 
  - Intel GMA950 supported but only on Mac and it's slow
  - Mac's with PPC cpu not supported in this demo, sorry guys

  Windows:

  Needs an OpenGL 1.4 compatible videocard  (with 128+MB of ram) and 
  a standard soundcard. 

  This demonstration made with GPL or freeware modules/compilers.
  We used vorbis lib to decode audio and openal to play it.

  Notes:

  For best result use nVidia 7xxx or 8xxx graphics card with  at least 256Mb 
  ram onboard. The demo made using a 8800GTS and a Core2Duo (runs above 300 fps).
  Also tested with Macbook / GMA950 (Slow but works) and a MacMini also with 
  GMA950 (its slow).

Credits:

  code:  pasy, pontscho
  music: slyspy 
  dance: modoc
  etc:   aha

Story:

When i made the scenecon08 invitation, i checked youtube several times for
effect ideas - mostly particle effects - and i found a clip "vet hard clip".
This clip gave me the idea of a dancing demo. I've searched for a dancer for
2 months and finally aha/holograms's wife modoc accepted the task.
We recorded about 50000 frames (33-35 min.) from two camera angles. After the 
recording the cleaing process started, i've removed the bright background and 
cropped to the desired size. I've created a tool which loads the two cam. 
angles and user can click the hand positions in 3d (x,y from front view, 
z from left). Aha bought a brand new laser mouse and started to click the
hand positions ... more than 20 000 clicks :) Meanwhile i selected the perfect 
6000 frames for the demo. After the handpositions was ready i started to code
the demo, and pontscho started to create and optimize the decompression 
algorythm. The demo was finished to the party version state 3 hours before 
soft deadline ... mission accomplished. This time we haven't got any 
graphicians - holiday and stuff -, and the music is outsourced also to slyspy
(our musicians are lazy). I've enjoyed to work with modoc and aha a lot! 
Thanks guys!


                                                             pasy out


Contact:

  E-mail: info@freshmindworkz.hu
  Homepage: http://www.freshmindworkz.hu/demoscene

  2008/08/25

