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Best Technical Paper Award at CAOS 2014
AWARDS · CAOS Artanim won the Best Technical Paper Award for the paper entitled "A Patient-Specific Measurement Technique to Model the Kinematics of the Shoulder in Tennis Players" at the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted...
Sex After Hip Transplants – Scientists Reveal New Guidelines
RESEARCH · HIP BIOMECHANICS What are the risks related to sexual activity after total hip arthroplasty? This is the question Artanim's researchers tried to answer in a motion capture study published in the Journal of Arthroplasty. Artanim joined forces with a surgeon...
3DIM at Electron Festival
FESTIVAL · ELECTRON 2014 In collaboration with Alain Renaud from MINTLab, we gave a workshop on April 20th at Electron Festival in Geneva. On this occasion, we presented the 3D In Motion (3DIM) experimental setup of capture, visualization and sonification of movements...
Building Your Own 3D Scanner out of Off-the-Shelf Parts
BEHIND THE SCENES · 3D SCANNING So you have an animation and simulation project, and want to scan people to get their high-resolution 3D meshes. At that point you have a wide variety of different options based on different capture technologies, big bulky machines,...
Visit to the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
SCIENCE OUTREACH · KAUST WEP Last week, we were invited to the Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) 2014, a three-week program of compelling educational, cultural and recreational events organized by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah...
Full-Body Virtual Reality with Oculus Rift and Xsens
TECHNOLOGY · FULL-BODY VR Yesterday, we tested the Oculus Rift with our Xsens MVN in Unity 3D, together with Tobias Baumann, game designer and freelancer. The goal was to virtually hit columns of cubes and balloons. Some...
Winter Sports Motion Capture
PRODUCTION · WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS Sochi 2014 — the next Winter Olympic Games — is coming soon... For us, it was an opportunity to motion capture several winter sports! Indeed, we were contacted by Kenzan Technologies for the making of a 3D animation requiring...
Bread Mocap – A Tribute to Charlie Chaplin
PRODUCTION · THE GREAT IMITATOR We were recently contacted to perform the motion capture for an upcoming short movie entitled "The Great Imitator" created by Boris Beer. This short animated movie will be a tribute to Charlie Chaplin. Without giving too many details,...