Glenn Winters

I enjoy mocap and do mocap for a living. Additionally, I enjoy tea, Disney history, game design, videogames, film, and graphic design. I have a problem of collecting film and video game soundtracks.

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The winters household will be divided for a few hours this evening. :)

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September: That means give me all the pumpkin beer!!

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Gooseybumps

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Excited!

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November Cover Revealed – The Order: 1886

Our next issue offers a world-exclusive first look at the new PlayStation 4 game from Ready At Dawn.

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Tactile rendering methods for touch surfaces.  Interesting stuff!

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Pretty inspiring real time motion capture and compositing work done for Star Wars 1313

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Beyond Two Souls - Performance Capture & Visual Arts Trailer 【HD】 (by CommunityGame)

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IndieCade 2013 Nominees Announced!

Get excited! 120 of the most creative, innovative games of the year will be showcased by IndieCade at this year’s Festival 2013.

36 jury-selected finalist games are eligible to win top awards at the IndieCade Red Carpet Awards, taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Check them out.

All games are eligible for the Audience Choice category during Closing Awards—so be sure to cast your vote at the festival.

Congratulations to the nominees and official selection.

Play these games at the [GameWalk] and across the entire festival—the Fire Station, the Village, Night Games, Big Games, tournaments, and more!

Register and Celebrate the Best Indie Games of the Year!

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Congrats to the finalists. Played a few of these and they are great!

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Really enjoy the look of this ! Look forward to watching its development

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The following are photos from a motion capture shoot that I lead with the help of other Drexel students to help with professor Dave Mauriello's ongoing research project.  The team is working on creating a virtual Carole Lombard that will model dresses from the Drexel University's historic clothing collection. It will be part of an exhibit for Winterthur museum in 2015.  It's exciting to be part of the early production process and something I look forward to see grow over the next few years!

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For the past term I have been working with fellow students on converting our capture volume at Drexel University into a performance capture stage.  We are slowly getting through technical hurdles but today both Matt Haas and I were able to cross one off the list.  We did this by combining both our Vicon system with the Measurand Shapehand system running in real time.   We also just received approval to work with Faceware's technology and are looking forward to seeing it's potential over the next few months.  This all leads into a bigger research project that is brewing at Drexel which I'm excited to be a part of. Until next time!

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I wanted to share a case study that I have been working on that involves the game Journey.  The first part of this process is sharing a narrative review that I have submitted to GDC 2013's Narrative Review.  This paper specifically breaks down the different narrative elements in the game and starts the discussion about how visual composition works with the visual narrative in order to speak to the player and draw the players attention.  Feel free to let me know of any comments! 

Journey Narrative Review

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Fantastic talk by Chris Solarski.  Very interesting discussion about constructing emotion within a game.

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Disney pulls out a grand slam with this short in my book. There is so much about this that works well.  From the music, the animation style, the layout, and more.  Take some time today and check it out if you havent!