Dance and technology united by Portuguese inspiration – Shifter

This is proof that not always the big projects come from foreign minds. Frederico Silva, a renowned Portuguese in the advertising world, decided to combine the best that technology and dance have to offer and develop a project that helps to understand the way of how computers “look” for people through motion sensors . Come and meet the project the phyx • • i • a .

The idea arose from the will that Frederick, who took the Digital Media course in Sweden, had to try new things . The 3D designer is currently working in the United States and has developed advertising campaigns for brands like Swarovski, Google, Nike and Mini.

However, the phyx • • i • a was something more personal and with the participation of the Japanese Maria Takeuchi. Frederick challenged the music production company 29 years dancing under the viewing of two Kinect sensors, Xbox, for these to detect your movements, which were then analyzed by five computers, which united thousands of lines to as many points to illustrate the Mary’s movements.

“This information was then combined and filtered so that could proceed with the visual development. The project was completed start to finish in five to six weeks and all images rendered in five computers “, explained the Portuguese Público.

The result is simply brutal. Although it was published on Vimeo, which does not include a YouTube dimension of the public, the video has already more than 309,000 views in just one week! “We’re still trying to digest all the emails we receive. Does, in fact, that all the work and the hours worked in this project have been worth “, Frederick concluded.