| TECH TV (formerly
known as ZDTV) was a 24-hour cable network with
programming
and information about all things digital (computers, the Internet,
digital
gadgets, etc.). Paul was hired to provide the voice for Dash,
an animated character created in real-time using motion-capture
animation technology.
Dash (along with Tilde,
the female animated character) was an on-air and on-line host of ZDTV.
Paul
performed as Dash in on-air promos for the network. On the ZDTV program
Internet Tonight, Paul
(as Dash)
reported daily on the latest in cool homepages in a segement called "The
Homepage Hall of Fame".
While providing the Dash's voice, Paul operated
specially-designed gloves
that controlled Dash's mouth movements - to give the illusion that Dash
was talking.
Paul also wrote and edited scripts for Dash, both for promos
for the
network and for Internet Tonight.
In 2004, Comcast's G4 channel merged with TechTV, and for
awhile the channel was known as G4 TechTV. By 2005, the 'TechTV' portion of
the name was dropped, effectively ending the network. Click HERE to go to the Wikipedia article on the history of Tech TV. Click HERE Click HERE to go back. |
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Motion-capture animation is
animation
created by capturing the motion of people or objects, and then using a
computer to apply that motion to a cartoon character.
For Dash and Tilde, that meant having an actor wear a lycra suit, on
which was placed numerous sensors that submitted location information
to
a very high-powered graphics computer. The computer then extrapolated
the
movements of the actor to the movements of Dash and Tilde.
The animation was completed by having the voice actors manipulate
special
gloves that controlled the characters' facial movements.
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