Bio-Sensor

Bio-Sensor (バイオセンサー, Baiosensa) is a 1984 Japanese animated surreal short film produced by Takashi Fukumoto at Toyo Links and Hitoshi Nishimura at Osaka University.^[1] It's notable for its early use of primitive motion capture, using profile and head-on films of a tiger walking (a la Muybridge).^[2]

Bio-Sensor
Directed by	Takashi Fukumoto
Produced by	Takashi Fukumoto (Toyolinks Corporation) Hitoshi Nishimura (Osaka University)
Production companies	Osaka University Computer Graphics Research Group Toyo Links Corporation Bio-Meta Team
Release date	1984 (1984)
Running time	4 minutes
Country	Japan

Crew

• Producer: Takashi Fukumoto (Toyo Links), Hitoshi Nishimura (Osaka University)
• Digitizers: Hiroyuki Hayashi, Masuharu Endo, Taku Kimura, Noriaki Murashima, Chiharu Kajitsuka, Shinji Tanaka, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Koji Ichihashi

Special thanks

Osaka University

• Koichi Omura
• Isao Shirakawa
• Makoto Hirai
• Masato Nishida
• Takashi Yamana
• Nariyoshi Yamai
• Hirohisa Wakai

Nippon Electronics College

• Yoichiro Kawaguchi
• Suma Noji
• Yuzuru Nakamura

French parody

Sio-Benbor is a 1988 French parody of Bio-Sensor, created by a French company, Fantôme. It's notable for having a “really cute kitty” cat.^[3]