Motion capture can look great or cheap, but these 10 characters represent the best examples of how the technology can bring ...

NPCx has raised $3 million in funding for improving motion capture for non-player characters (NPCs) in games. Kakao Investment led the round to strengthen NPCx’s position within the gaming and ...

Marvel Cinematic Universe AI Is Giving Fans A Look At What Sadie Sink Could Look Like In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, And Boy Do I Hope It’s Right Marvel Cinematic Universe The Key Way Thunderbolts*’ ...

Motion-capture performances really took hold of Hollywood in the 2000s, when the treacherous hobbit Gollum helped Sam and Frodo make their way to Mordor to destroy the one ring to rule them all. As ...

Actor Andy Serkis is famous for, among other things, his incredible talent for motion-capture characters. One of his first high-profile roles of that type was Gollum from Peter Jackson's The Lord of ...

Some of Sebastian Starke’s fondest childhood memories are swinging from doorways, scaling walls, and brandishing a sword. Starke first got hooked on video games — he only experienced those adventures ...

In 2004’s The Polar Express, Tom Hanks played a whopping six characters Director Robert Zemeckis used performance capture technology to mimic the book by Chris Van Allsburg as closely as possible Van ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

Brett Ineson, President and CTO of Animatrik Film Design, on how the evolution of motion and performance capture affects storytelling from Hollywood blockbusters, to AAA games, and immersive metaverse ...

The tools of modern cinema have become increasingly accessible to independent and even amateur filmmakers, but realistic CG characters (like them or not) have remained the province of big-budget ...