"Moving Stories: Motion Capture in Storytelling"

Garrett Thompson talks about the power and potential of motion capture (mo-cap) technology in everyday performance and storytelling. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Garrett is a creator on the forefront of art and technology. Through his work in the film and video game industries he has become an expert in motion capture technology and practices, which he has also leveraged to great effect in his voice acting and animation work.

Combined with his musical background as a violist and composer as well as his projection design work in theater for venues all over the world, he is constantly finding new ways to combine and expand the individual mediums to create spectacles far greater than the sum of their parts. Heavily steeped and educated in classical traditions, he loves collaborating with other artists and performers to help bring stories to life in ways people have never seen before. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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