How to mo-cap a horse: Making hay from these techniques
Before we had cars, motorbikes, or planes, horses stood as our primary means of transport. Re-creating their distinctive gait for animation in films, TV,...
Outsourcing is vital to the motion capture industry
In the decade-plus I’ve been working with motion capture, it’s been amazing to see how it has become an essential part of game development....
This e-skin from Xenoma captures your body’s motion for games
Japanese tech startup Xenoma showed its e-skin motion capture shirt at CES 2017, the big tech trade show last week in Las Vegas. The...
Square Enix’s mocap studio can capture and display an actor’s movements in real time
TOKYO — Video games like Final Fantasy XV have stunningly realistic visuals of human faces and bodies. Drawing those kinds of images by hand and animating...
Epic Games demos amazing real-time motion capture for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade
Ninja Theory is making a highly realistic viking psychological thriller called Hellblade. At the center of it is a woman warrior, Senua, who is...