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Larger Than Life, 1985

Dave Curlender & David S. Goodsell

“Larger Than Life” is a digital animation that incorporated early motion-capture techniques and other innovative computer graphics techniques. Using the university's molecular biology supercomputer, this was a project by then UCLA engineering/design student Dave Curlender and UCLA medical research doctoral candidate David S. Goodsell.

This finished project premiered to the public at the collaborative event On the Threshold (see “On the Threshold” promotional video) and was one of a number of early computer graphic works screened at EZTV, first as a work in progress and then numerous times over the years. Most recently, this 1985 piece was used as part of the finale for the opening of the Getty Museum's Pacific Standard Time.

Dave Curlender is an electronic engineer and designer. In his graduate studies at UCLA in the early 1980s, he conducted multi-disciplined experiments at the Molecular Biology Laboratory in motion simulation graphics, 3D animation, and automated motion capture.

David S. Goodsell, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

TITLE
Larger Than Life

DATE
1985

DIRECTOR
Dave Curlender, David S. Goodsell

ARTWORK TYPE
Video