Nigel Nunn of EA's Capture Lab shows how Canon cameras capture athletes' faces on the road.
Nigel Nunn of EA's Capture Lab shows how Canon cameras capture athletes' faces on the road.
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How EA quickly captures 3D scans of athletes’ faces for its sports games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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At the recent CES 2019 tech trade show in Las Vegas, Canon and Electronic Arts showed off how they capture 3D scans of the faces of busy athletes while they’re on the road.

Every year, EA needs to capture the faces of thousands of athletes for its video games, but it’s not always easy to get them to come to EA’s Capture Lab in Vancouver, Canada. So, Nigel Nunn, head of the Capture Lab, said in an interview with GamesBeat that EA uses a mobile capture rig that has 17 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV or Canon EOS Rebel SL2 cameras on it to go where the athletes are.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.