SAN ANTONIO — April 8, 2025 – Southwest Research Institute has launched a new markerless motion capture system that simplifies how film and gaming studios capture human movement for 3D animations.

Motion capture - technology which allows electronic sensors to track and record movement - is evolving by leaps and bounds. Mocap, short for motion capture, is not just limited to animation movies (as ...

Video game developers often turn to motion capture when they want realistic character animations. Mocap isn't very flexible, though, as it's hard to adapt a canned animation to different body shapes, ...

Conventional motion capture rigs -- the ones that use visual markers and arrays of infrared cameras -- cost tens of thousands of dollars, making them prohibitively expensive for everyone but major ...

Should a film made using the motion-capture technique qualify as an animated movie at the Oscars, or is it something else? Does the answer to that last question change if Steven Spielberg is the guy ...

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 ...

For those who don't know, President Barack Obama paid a visit to DreamWorks Animation studios yesterday, delivering a speech to 2,000 employees and visitors about the entertainment industry being "one ...

Motion-capture technology helps athletes perfect their technique. Aug. 10, 2012 — -- You doubtless remember the blue Pandorans in James Cameron's film "Avatar." The computer-generated effects ...