Let's Talk About Mocap #10
Remco Sikkema
Marketing Director at Xsens | The #1 in high-end Inertial Motion Capture and Inertial Sensors (IMU) | LinkedIn content creator about tech and motion capture ??
It'been a while, but I am back with the October edition, stepping into double digits now, it's #10!
If you would like to know more about the background of this newsletter, please check out edition #1.
Let's Talk About Mocap #10 - October 2024
1?? Time Ghost - Unity Originals real-time cinematic demo
It has been a while since Unity came out with jaw-dropping cinematics like Adam back in 2016. The Time Ghost demo for Unity 6 seems like a game changer again, it is really something. Also, check the 'How Unity 6 made it possible' video, which deep-dives into the tech behind this demo, including the #mocap part around the 38:00 minutes mark.
2?? Mocap actors want less secrecy about explicit scenes
Actors need more transparency about the mocap work they will be doing before they are booked. As sometimes they need to do 'uncomfortable' acting work they were not prepared for, such as sex scenes, or even rape scenes.
3?? Black Myth: Wukong - Cat Motion Capture
This game has created a buzz around the world. In between all the seriousness, they released a funny video showing an alternative approach to development using cats for mocap. It is a welcoming funny video.
4?? Larian introduces General Mocappery series
Larian released new YouTube channel about the making of Baldur's Gate 3, called Larian: Channel From Hell. The channel features a mocap series called General Mocappery. At this point, it has three videos (1, 2 and 3) going into the vast amount of mocap work they did.
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5?? Alternative mocap work
Tesla has been hiring motion capture 'actors' to work in Tesla's Palo Alto. Their job would be to wear an #Xsens motion capture suit and gloves that will collect data to train their humanoid robot Optimus.
6?? Check out these posts
Every edition I will share a selection of my LinkedIn posts with mocap relevancy. Go check them out in case you missed them:
??Bobba Fett at Times Square ?? Link to post
??Practical Animation by Teflon Sega ?? Link to post
??Nightshift at Tesla ?? Link to post
??Interdisciplinary research by Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics ?? Link to post
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