Let's Talk About Mocap #13
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 ??
I'm so sorry! I missed two months... But the Let's Talk About Mocap newsletter is back in 2025. The industry has taken some tough beatings lately; let's hope the rest of 2025 will turn out better.
If you would like to know more about the background of this newsletter, please check out edition #1.
Let's Talk About Mocap #13 - March 2025
1?? Mocap Society Mixer at GDC 2025
It's that time of year again in San Francisco. It's a great time to meet up with everyone in the business. There is already an overview of GDC Parties for you to check out. Just don't miss the annual GDC Mocap Society Mixer, hosted by Vicon. Make sure to meet fellow mocap people while enjoying some drinks:
Thursday, March 20 · 6:30 - 9:30pm PDT at the Zetta Hotel.
2?? Faq Mocap - Second edition
Last month was the second FAQ Mocap livetream, hosted by Xsens Entertainment | Movella colleagues Byron Qiao and Justin Adams. The first FAQ Mocap in January was an instant success, and for the second edition, they dived into full-body mocap in Unreal 5.
3?? AI MoCap with HTML5/WebGL
Akim Gacem coded an AI MoCap video module using HTML5/WebGL. It's far from perfect, but this is a neat project. It can generate nice low-budget results for prototyping.
4?? The old days: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002)
This month, I came across a video about Splinter Cell 2002, a game I played for many many hours! In this video animation director Steve Dupont talks about Sam Fisher's body and facial mocap, how he approached it back then.
5?? Body language research across cultures using motion capture
How do we account for cultural diversity in body language? What does happiness look like for someone born and raised in Japan?
Scientists from the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University and National Chung Cheng University used motion capture to create a database of body language (from happiness to contempt) aimed towards an Asian population for the first time.
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:
??Sigourney Weaver doing mocap for Avatar: Way of the Water ?? Link to post
??Baby motion capture research ?? Link to post
??Unreleased previs shot from X-Men: First Class ?? Link to post
??'Love Me' featurette ?? Link to post
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1 天前You are doing amazing Remco, So much value always.
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