Artists are hardworking—they gladly embrace long, tedious multi-step processes in search of magic! This is probably why in the early 1900s, Émile Cohl hand-drew 700 drawings to bring life to his paper ...

I've been doing a lot of playing around with Unity and character animations for a couple of after-school clubs I am running next year, and I stumbled across Mixamo.com. Which of course got me thinking ...

Motion capture has been one of the prime enablers of modern CGI sequences within both film and video games. If you've ever wondered about the complexities of the process, Phil Rhodes reports back from ...

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 ...

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 ...

In sport, the margin between success and failure is often measured in milliseconds. It could be a cricketer adjusting their foot positioning, a runner refining their sprint start or a footballer ...

One of the ways game developers add realism to character motion is through the use of motion capture technology. An actor dons a specialized suit and performs motions, and these motions are captured ...