Meet Animatrik’s Bruno Sargeant
NAME: Bruno Sargeant @Bruno_Sargeant COMPANY: Animatrik Film Design CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR COMPANY? Motion capture and virtual production service, in glorious Vancouver, British Columbia, though I live...
View ArticleGet to know performance capture with James Knight
James Knight, who worked on James Cameron’s Avatar while at Giant Studios, knows motion capture, or more precisely “performance capture.” It’s his specialty, as they say. Knight is currently at...
View ArticleiPi Soft V3 offers Kinect 2 sensor support, more
iPi Soft is offering Version 3.0 of its iPi Motion Capture markerless motion capture technology, which includes support for the new Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor, increased tracking speed, improved arm and...
View ArticlePerformance-capture companies Animatrik, DI4D collaborate
Motion- and facial-capture companies Animatrik Film Design and Dimensional Imaging (DI4D) have launched a new collaboration based on their respective mocap expertise. The alliance will deliver facial...
View ArticleAWE puts people in a VR battle using mocap
What’s the best way to safely show people what it’s like to be on a battlefield? Virtual reality. Mobile content developer AWE employed motion capture to create a virtual reality experience for the...
View ArticleOptiTrack’s parent company merging with Planar Systems
Planar Systems, a Leyard company and a worldwide provider of display systems, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire NaturalPoint, which makes optical tracking and motion capture...
View ArticleSony Imageworks’ VFX work on Spider-Man: Homecoming
By Daniel Restuccio With Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming getting ready to release digitally on September 26 and on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD on October 17, we thought this was a...
View ArticleHouse of Moves add Selma Gladney-Edelman, Alastair Macleod
Animation and motion capture studio House of Moves (HOM) has strengthened its team with two new hires — Selma Gladney-Edelman was brought on as executive producer and Alastair Macleod as head of...
View ArticleCreating EA’s Cinematic Battlefield 2042 Trailer
By Randi Altman Electronic Arts and DICE (EA Digital Illusions CE AB) will be releasing Battlefield 2042 on October 22 of this year. To promote this highly anticipated game, they have released a...
View ArticlePlanar Studios: An Initiative for Virtual Production
Visualization technology company Planar has launched Planar Studios, an initiative aimed at the virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) markets. Through the Planar Studios initiative, Planar...
View ArticleThe Family Opens LED Virtual Production Studio in Brooklyn
The Family, a multi-disciplinary studio based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has opened an independently owned LED virtual production studio designed for film and television. Officially opening on November...
View ArticleGiantstep Provides VFX and Mocap for K-Pop Music Video
Giantstep, which develops virtual humans through its R&D division, GX Lab, provided a series of VFX and animation shots for a K-pop music video for the band aespa and its new song “Savage,” which...
View ArticleEevolver Uses Real-Time Fur Technology on Ralph Lauren Bears
Eevolver, an LA-based production studio, was commissioned by Industrial Color to reimagine the iconic Ralph Lauren polo bears for the 2021 fragrance campaign. The company used Unreal Engine’s new...
View ArticleAutodesk Invests in Radical’s AI-Powered, Democratized 3D Mocap
Autodesk has invested in Radical, a New York-based developer of a cloud-based, AI-powered 3D motion capture solution. According to Autodesk, this investment marks its latest move toward providing...
View ArticleVicon Intros Valkyrie Camera Range for Mocap
Vicon has launched Valkyrie, its new flagship camera range with four camera models offering high-performance motion capture. According to Vicon, Valkyrie cameras are designed to capture motion more...
View ArticleVicon Intros SuperNova Object Tracking for Virtual Production
Vicon, which makes motion capture technology for the VFX industry, has introduced new object tracking technology called SuperNova. SuperNova is the next generation of Vicon’s Nova LED solution,...
View ArticleMove.ai’s Mobile App: Wireless, Suitless Mocap via AI
Move.ai is offering high-fidelity, markerless motion capture to the masses with software that extracts human motion from video using advanced AI. Through its new iOS application, users can generate...
View ArticleDisguise and Move.ai Team on Real-Time, Markerless Mocap
Disguise has released Invisible, a technology bundle for real-time markerless motion capture developed in partnership with Move.ai. Invisible offers fast, easy and cost-effective motion capture on-set...
View ArticleVicon Demos ML-Powered Markerless Mocap
Vicon debuted its machine learning-powered markerless technology at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, in collaboration with Artanim, the Swiss research institute and the VR group, Dreamscape Immersive. The...
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