MOTION CAPTURE

connecting the dots

Mercenary, Iconoclast, Dancer of Death – Niklaus Manuel and the Reformation period
13 October 2016 to 17 April 2017

CONTEXT

For the exhibition "Niklaus Manuel and the Reformation Period" of the Historical Museum of Bern, I participated to the production of an animated short film based on Manuel's Dance of Death, a mural consisting of 24 scenes depicting death dancing with people as diverse as an emperor, a beggar, a queen, an abbot, a soldier, a cook, a child and its mother.

Choreographer Nina Stadler and dancer Fhunyue Gao conceived an expressive dance performance that was motion captured at ArtAnim Foundation in Meyrin – Geneva, Switzerland.

> video documentation by Artanim

DANCE

Phunyue Gao

CHOREOGRAPHY

Nina Stadler

MUSIC

Annalena Fröhlich, Salvatore Sciarrino

MOTION CAPTURE

Caecilia Charbonnier, Sylvain Chagué, Artanim Foundation, Meyrin – Geneva, Switzerland

3D PRODUCTION

Technical concept, pre-production, 3D scanning, modeling, additional animation, post production: Simon Tschachtli

CLIENT

Bernisches Historisches Museum
Thank you to Aline Minder, Susanne Marti, Andreas Rüfenacht, Bernard Landolt

3D MODELING & RENDERING

fusing 2D & 3D