The Captury releases Captury Studio 1.0
Intriguing new markerless mocap system promises to capture any actor, anywhere - including animals.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
motion capture
iPi Soft ships iPi Motion Capture 3.0 product line
Updated: markerless mocap system now captures up to three actors from 4 Kinects or 16 PlayStation Eyes.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click
Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
IKinema launches free trial of WebAnimate Pro
Rig characters and retarget motion capture data in your browser, using a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, January 12th, 2015
IKinema adds graph editor to WebAnimate
Updated: Free browser-based service gets new tools for stitching and retargeting motion clips.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Xsens updates MVN inertial mocap line-up
Motion-capture suits and software redesigned to provide true VFX-quality data; price cut by up to 30%.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Build a full-body inertial mocap suit for under $400
Back Perception Neuron on Kickstarter, and get an assemble-it-yourself 20-sensor kit for $375.
Friday, August 29th, 2014
10 tips for guerrilla animation production
Hobbit veteran Kory Juul reveals the lessons he has learned while making CG feature White Tiger Legend.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
Mixamo launches Starter and Indie pricing plans
$50/month gets you ten animations, plus access to the character creator, facial mocap and decimation tools.
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Faceware Technologies ships Faceware Live 2.0
Markerless facial mocap system adds support for multiple characters, option to stream data live into Unity.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Dynamixyz Performer Suite adds multi-camera tracking
Facial mocap toolset gets support for hybrid markerless and marker-based capture, new pay-as-you-go pricing.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Faceshift 2014 ships
Kinect-based facial scanning and markerless mocap tool gets quicker setup, improved tracking quality.
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Stream facial mocap data from a Kinect live into Unity
Updated plugin for the Faceshift markerless facial capture system offers new real-time workflow.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014