CHOPS Experiment

"Wally, the Kids' Talking Wall" has heard about the troubles down in Haiti as a result of the disastrouse earthquake, and has this message for all his friends in Carson City.

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For more information about our sponsors, contact Partnership Carson City
For more info about Wally and the technology behind him, contact Gary Jesch at http://www.chops.com/

The Kids Talking Wall at the Carson Mall is being sponsored by us, to support the efforts of Carole Thompson and the organization Partnership Carson City, a collaboration of local leaders and government organizations united to deter children from drug and alcohol use.

The mascot for the Talking Wall is our creation - "Wally," who has been brought to life in 3D to serve as a mascot at monthly live performances. He also helps promote causes that the Wall is into, such as random acts of kindness, people working together, internet safety, creativity through the arts and help for the homeless in Haiti.

Here's a look at a YouTube video of Wally -



For more information, visit us at CHOPS.com.

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Last night, while working with Dana Stamos who was in LA and connected to my studio by Skype, the two of us created a small live animation directly on Facebook, placing it on Dana's Wall -

Friend Dana to look at the Wall on the bottom of her profile.

Now we are trying to think of ways this will benefit people.

Here's a look at the hardware and software we used - 2 Digital Puppeteer systems, one for each character in the two-character presentation, two Sharks, two mixers, a Canopus ACDV box to convert S-Video to Firewire input for the webcam, the DV driver, Skype and two ToonMX licenses, of course. The desktop hardware was my own build of a high-end PC system with my studio software tools on it. The Digital Puppeteer systems are running high-end Dell laptops with Nvidia cards.

For more information, contact me at the response form on the website - http://www.chops.com/

Friend me on Facebook - Gary Jesch - if you'd like a live animation on your Wall.

What a surprise to find there's an amazing amount of support out there for our virtual character, Digital Dan, for President!

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Here is a link to a short, prerecorded webcast I just produced for Netbriefings.

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I'm using an online app called Proclaim. Let me know what you think.

At about 4 p.m. Pacific, a "First" occurred in the world of Cyberspace, when our virtual character Digital Dan interacted with Dana Stamos via a video webcam connection on Skype.

About five miles away, Gary Jesch, creator of Digital Dan and the live animation system called the Digital Puppeteer, were connected and Jesch was animating Dan in real time, with facial expressions, lip sync and real-time movement on the screen. Dan was posed in his computer-generated TV set, called "KNOW."

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