motion capture
noun
: a technology for digitally recording specific movements of a person (such as an actor) and translating them into computer-animated images
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This is using all the technology of motion capture and very, very precise rendering of the sequences, including cameras, lenses and where the camera moves.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
The veteran actor with two legendary franchises to his credit has nearly as much screen time as Mackie and makes the most of it, even subjecting himself to the rigors of motion capture for his character’s extreme physical transformation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
To make their dancing robot, the team first designed an AI model trained on human motion capture videos and then integrated it into two bipedal Unitree G1 robots.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Jonno Davies plays Williams as a CGI monkey, with WETA FX doing all the motion capture to transform the actor.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
The veteran actor with two legendary franchises to his credit has nearly as much screen time as Mackie and makes the most of it, even subjecting himself to the rigors of motion capture for his character’s extreme physical transformation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
To make their dancing robot, the team first designed an AI model trained on human motion capture videos and then integrated it into two bipedal Unitree G1 robots.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Jonno Davies plays Williams as a CGI monkey, with WETA FX doing all the motion capture to transform the actor.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Motion capture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motion%20capture. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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