Motion-capture – or 'performance-capture', to give the method the actor-friendly name it's more recently come to be known by – has now become the norm for the contemporary blockbuster. We barely bat ...

You might have seen Hollywood stars in "motion capture" suits, acting in full-body costumes peppered with sensors that let a computer transform them into a Hulk or a dragon or an enchanted beast. Now, ...

Engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture -- and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Instead, it requires only a ...

You might know motion capture as the tech that transformed Andy Serkis into Gollum, but now it can transform everyday people into animated avatars in virtual worlds, and all in real-time. Motion ...

Zoe Saldaña said in an interview with Beyond Noise that James Cameron is “considering a documentary about the making” of the “Avatar” movies, which the Oscar-winning actor is keen on because it will ...

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Modern motion-capture systems are the product of a century of tinkering, innovation and computational advances. Mocap was born a lifetime before Gollum hit the big screen in The Lord of the Rings, and ...

Summer movie season means over-the-top action sequences, mind-blowing special effects, and 3D magic dominating the theaters, and CGI is better than ever. As digital animation grows more advanced each ...

Mention motion capture and the first thing likely to pop up in your head is an actor in a black spandex suit stuck with rubber balls. This norm, however, may soon be a relic of the past as software ...

The team developed MobilePoser, a new system that leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices to accurately track a person’s full-body pose and global translation in space in ...