Motion capture can look great or cheap, but these 10 characters represent the best examples of how the technology can bring fantastical creations to life.

NPCx has raised $3 million in funding for improving motion capture for non-player characters (NPCs) in games. Kakao Investment led the round to strengthen NPCx’s position within the gaming and ...

Street Fighter 6 downloadable content character Alex will launch on March 17, Capcom announced. Wrestling star Kenny Omega is the motion capture actor behind Alex’s signature moves.

Over the past few months, Shin Megami Tensei V Character Designer Masayuki Doi offered insights into different characters. Each one appears alongside concept art for the featured person. This time, ...

Motion-capture performances really took hold of Hollywood in the 2000s, when the treacherous hobbit Gollum helped Sam and Frodo make their way to Mordor to destroy the one ring to rule them all. As ...

Actor Andy Serkis is famous for, among other things, his incredible talent for motion-capture characters. One of his first high-profile roles of that type was Gollum from Peter Jackson's The Lord of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You have to imagine everything when you’re doing it, as if you’re auditioning. Even though we had ...

Brett Ineson, President and CTO of Animatrik Film Design, on how the evolution of motion and performance capture affects storytelling from Hollywood blockbusters, to AAA games, and immersive metaverse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jake Sully being taught by Neytiri in "Avatar" (2009) - 20th Century Fox Animation is a medium, not a genre. As the 10 best ...