Adam Powers, the juggler

Adam Powers, the Juggler ( English Adam Powers, the Juggler , or The Juggler ) is a computer animation from 1981 in which the eponymous protagonist has his appearance.

background

The computer animation was created as a demo by Gary Demos , John Whitney Jr., Craig Reynolds and Richard Taylor of Information International Inc. (Triple-I and III).

It was one of the very first CGI animated anthropomorphic characters, and was presented at SIGGRAPH 1981. Was shown the first human form in raster graphics , in the motion capture (using the real juggler Ken Rosenthal) was applied.

The character was modeled with about 25,000–30,000 polygons. The face of Adam Powers was in the movie Tron reused, and forms there as mapped texture , the digital face of the MCP ( acronym of English Master Control Program ).

content

The clip shows the title character Adam Powers, who stands on a huge plane with a checkerboard pattern , with a solar eclipse in the back, which reveals a solar corona . He juggles some shapes (sphere, cuboid, cone, etc.) and the computer animation also shows colorful shapes and objects swirling around. The clip ends when the juggler with a backflip vanishes without a trace in his top hat, and only these leaves.

literature

Jie Wu: The 'Realism' of Algorithmic Human Figures: A Study of Selected Examples 1964 to 2001 . University of Bremen, 2011, p. 55 ff.

Individual evidence

^ Barbara Flückiger : Visual Effects: Film images from the computer . 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-518-1 , pp. 424 .
↑ Anne Bartsch, Jens Eder, Kathrin Fahlenbrach (eds.): Audiovisual Emotions. Emotion display and conveyance through audiovisual media offers . 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-30-9 , pp. 402 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Bill Giduz: Adam Powers Heralds Age Of Electronic Juggling . In: Juggler's World . tape 35 , no. 1 , March 1983, p. 19 ( juggle.org ).
↑ Tom Sito: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation . 2013, ISBN 978-0-262-31431-2 , pp. 171 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Robert Leach: Creative Computer Graphics . 1984, ISBN 0-521-26251-8 , pp. 51 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Dream world made of bits . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1984 ( online ).
↑ Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann: Computer Animation: Theory and Practice . 2012, ISBN 978-4-431-68105-2 , pp. 37, Fig. 4.18 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Barbara Flückiger : Visual Effects: Film images from the computer . 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-518-1 , pp. 424 .

[2] Anne Bartsch, Jens Eder, Kathrin Fahlenbrach (eds.): Audiovisual Emotions. Emotion display and conveyance through audiovisual media offers . 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-30-9 , pp. 402 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Bill Giduz: Adam Powers Heralds Age Of Electronic Juggling . In: Juggler's World . tape 35 , no. 1 , March 1983, p. 19 ( juggle.org ).

[4] Tom Sito: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation . 2013, ISBN 978-0-262-31431-2 , pp. 171 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Robert Leach: Creative Computer Graphics . 1984, ISBN 0-521-26251-8 , pp. 51 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[6] Dream world made of bits . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1984 ( online ).

[7] Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann: Computer Animation: Theory and Practice . 2012, ISBN 978-4-431-68105-2 , pp. 37, Fig. 4.18 ( limited preview in Google Book search).