Cubic Motion ships Persona
Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
mocap
IKinema releases Orion 2.0
Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Rokoko's Motion Library is coming to Maya
New plugin to let users buy moves recorded by top Hollywood mocap studios within Maya for $3-6 each.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2019
Mocap editing app gets Clean Up Scene tool, updates to the Story Window and Camera Switcher.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Neat new tool Glycon lets you record mocap in virtual reality
Low-cost app lets users record full-body motion capture in FBX format using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Download the free Kinect Mocap Toolkit For Windows
New free tool lets users record full-body mocap in BVH format via up to four secondhand Kinect sensors.
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
Epic Games ships free MotionBuilder Live Link for UE4
Free plugin streams mocap data from MotionBuilder to preview it inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
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
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