Angel Quest is the video game I developped from May 1996 to September 1997 for GT Interactive. This project was the first to use optical motion capture for realtime animation: we pioneered this advanced technology.

The heroes was an Angel living in a very large world: he could make use of his ability to fly to speed up its move towards the next location to visit.

Numerous characters were also there to help him find his way, giving him potential clues through interactive dialogs.

The game was developped for Sony PlayStation and PC.

Angel Quest est un jeu video que j'ai développé de mai 1996 à septembre 1997 pour GT Interactive. Ce projet fût le premier jeu à utiliser un système d'acquisition optique de mouvements (motion capture).
Ce jeu fût développé pour Sony PlayStation et PC.

The main character of the game was an angel therefore most of the animation was difficult to capture:

A great deal of imagination was involved and we used a lot of tricks to achieve the capture: for instance, when we captured the take off:

Eight optical infrared cameras system

You can see two out of eight infrared cameras that enable the system to capture the trajectory of the balls glued on the actor:

Acting

This character was supposed to float in the air. You can see me shaking a base on which the actor is sitting.

Fighting

The actor is ready for a strike.

By the way, one can see on the rear, two cameras as well as the super computer starting capturing the movement.

Le personnage principal du jeu était un ange. Évidement cela n'a pas simplifier la capture.

La capture de la plupart des mouvements fût difficile et nécessita beaucoup d'imagination et d'astuces, comme par exemple, le décollage de l'ange.

Vous pouvez voir deux des huit caméras optiques qui permettent de capturer la trajectoire des boules collées à l'acteur.

Jeu d'acteur et combat

Ce personnage était censé flotter dans les airs. On peut me voir en train de secouer la base où l'acteur est assi.

Le cascadeur est prêt pour la capture d'un coup.
Et les caméras ainsi que le super calculateur dans le fond démarrent la capture.