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Bio-Sensor
Directed byTakashi Fukumoto
Produced byTakashi Fukumoto (Toyolinks Corporation)
Hitoshi Nishimura (Osaka University)
Production
companies
Osaka University Computer Graphics Research Group
Toyo Links Corporation
Bio-Meta Team
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
4 minutes
CountryJapan

Bio-Sensor (バイオセンサー, Baiosensa) is a 1984 Japanese animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University.[1] It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking (a la Muybridge).[2]

Crew

  • Producer: Takashi Fukumoto (Toyo Links), Hitoshi Nishimura (Osaka University)
  • Digitizers: Hiroyuki Hayashi, Masuharu Endo, Taku Kimura, Noriaki Murashima, Chiharu Kajitsuka, Shinji Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Koji Ichihashi

Special thanks

Osaka University

  • Koichi Omura
  • Isao Shirakawa
  • Makoto Hirai
  • Masato Nishida
  • Takashi Yamana
  • Nariyoshi Yamai
  • Hirohisa Wakai

Nippon Electronics College

French parody

Sio-Benbor is a 1988 French parody of Bio-Sensor, created by a French company, Fantôme. It's notable for having a “really cute kitty” cat.[3]

References

  1. ^ "日本にフルCGアニメは根付くのか?:第 2 回:木村 卓(アートディレクター、CG アーティスト) | 連載 | CGWORLD.jp". CG・映像の専門情報サイト | CGWORLD.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  2. ^ "Bio Sensor - 武蔵野美術大学 美術館・図書館 イメージライブラリー所蔵 映像資料データベース". img-lib.musabi.ac.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  3. ^ "Sio Benbor — Histoire 3D Wiki". histoire3d.siggraph.org (in French). Retrieved 2018-05-05.