Eye candy: DI4D's facial performance capture reel
See the firm's markerless mocap tech in use on Far Cry 5 trailers and MPC's VFX for Blade Runner 2049.
Sunday, July 1st, 2018
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Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo
Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya
Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2
Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
Noitom launches Perception Neuron/FaceRig Studio bundle
Get a 32-sensor full-body inertial mocap system plus markerless facial mocap software for $1,750.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
IKinema releases Orion 1.0
Neat new system based around the HTC Vive makes it possible to create a complete sub-$1,500 full-body mocap setup for VR work.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
OptiTrack ships Motive 2.0
Mocap software for firm's optical tracking systems gets neat ability to 'self-heal' calibration drift, support for OptiTrack Active VR solutions,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
IKinema releases Action 5.0 for Maya
Update to mocap solving plugin aims to let users stream, retarget and clean data in Maya in real time.
Friday, October 27th, 2017
Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0
Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7
Now shipping: Big update to 3D character animation software adds new morph animation toolset, PBR viewport, HDRI baking, real-time GI.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017
iPi Soft releases iPi Mocap Studio 3.6
Latest updates to markerless mocap tool permit real-time tracking via Kinect game sensors.
Monday, June 12th, 2017
Faceware Technologies releases Faceware Live 2.5
Real-time markerless facial mocap system gets new tools for fine-tuning animations, built-in preview characters.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Xsens ships MVN Studio 4.4
Update to motion capture software lets users record directly from Xsens' inertial suits to an on-body data pack when working outdoors.
Thursday, April 13th, 2017