Wired
February, 1998
Toons 2000Fans of The Simpsons know satirist Harry Shearer as the voices of Mr. Burns and Principal Skinner, among others. Recently Shearer donned a motion-sensitive suit (like the one pictured below) that fed his body and facial movements to a computer. Instantly, the computer used the motion data to animate a cast of wacky characters, including cartoons of President Clinton and Vice President Gore. The technology is called Real Time Animation, and it was used to create an HBO pilot produced wi...
