Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Friday June 20, 2008 at 08:00 AM |
Guitar Hero, the most popular music videogame of all time, didn't just happen. A talented team of designers, musicians and hyper-geeks had to construct the game from scratch at some point. But when it came time to do some upgrades one feature they decided to add was realistic faces on the games singing characters. And the best way to replicate human facial movements is to digitally map a real human face while he sings. It's called motion capture - or mo-cap - and the man behind the faces of Guitar Hero is a 24 year-old guy named Adam Jennings. SFGate tracked him down and gives us a rare look into the strange world of one of the most "seen" faces in the world.
About once a week, actor Adam Jennings drives a few miles down the San Fernando Valley from his apartment to a converted warehouse in nearby Woodland Hills. He lies on a couch for the better part of an hour while technicians attach about 70 little spherical sensors to his face with adhesive.
When they are done, Jennings sits on a stool in a large, dark room for eight-hour sessions and lip-syncs rock songs while his face is filmed by as many as a dozen motion-capture cameras, collecting data that will be turned into computer-generated graphics for video games.
Adam Jennings is the face of the wildly popular Guitar Hero.
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