| The first step to animate the mummy involved cyberscanning the Evenhouse sculpture of the mummy's head. |
Cyberscan Movie (QuickTime 6.8 MB)
Cyberscan Movie (AVI 2.7 MB)
Cyberscan Movie (MPEG 2.4 MB)
The second step was to cyberscan the body of a child.
It had to be scanned in the same way as the head so that the two pieces could be
sutured together to form a three-dimensional child.
Using digitizing equipment called Cyberwear, the
three-dimensional image can be rotated on the computer screen.| The cyberscanner images are opened in Alias software. The body could never have been modeled from scratch in the computer with this kind of accuracy. |
Animation in Alias Movie (QuickTime 5.3 MB)
Animation in Alias Movie (AVI 6.5 MBs)
Animation in Alias Movie (MPEG 4.4 MB)
Care was taken in the animation process of the child to create
something based on a lot of realism from the scientific data.
A virtual museum was created based very loosely on the World
Heritage Museum where the mummy is located. Display cases with various artifacts from the
Roman Egyptian period are included.
From that point of view the animation will simulate
a walk-through of the virtual museum. At some point the mummy will come to life, pick up
objects, and be transformed back in time to its homeland in the Fayum Oasis District of
ancient Egypt.
"One of the things that I have always been interested in is finding
a way to take
three-dimensional data, things that are very dry, and add an element of life to
it.
So we decided to take some of the scientific mummy data and create an animation
that
would actually bring the mummy to life. But of course it had to be based on a lot of
realism."
Barbara Movie (QuickTime 3 MB)
Barbara Movie (AVI 1.6 MB)
Barbara Movie (MPEG 1.8 MB)
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