Definition of motion capture
: 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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Both Notary and Vaughn-Lawlor also performed the motion capture for their characters on set.
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That’s where George lives and hangs out with Davis Okoye (Johnson), a loving primatologist who carries on conversations with the ape (performed in motion capture by Jason Liles) in sign language all day.
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To create some of the features of the AM4MN, adidas designers used scans of athletes' feet and ARAMIS motion capture technology used by NASA, to learn more about how an athlete's foot moves during a game.
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Wilson was recorded reciting the Scots language poem for use in the animation, and experts in motion capture technology with the Glasgow firm DI4D transferred his facial movements onto a digital rendering of the original model.
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Played by Ruffalo via motion capture, the Hulk has done a lot of grunting in the previous films but is downright talkative in Ragnarok.
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The evil Supreme Leader Snoke, played by Andy Serkis in a motion capture performance, is planning a massive attack against the Resistance.
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And their teacher/student (or Jedi/Padawan) relationship seems to mirror that of Kylo and Supreme Leader Snoke (played via motion capture by Andy Serkis).
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Notary works primarily in motion capture, technology popularized by Avatar and Andy Serkis’s Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films.
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First Known Use of motion capture
1992
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