motion capture
noun
: 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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As the voice and motion capture behind the film's Magic Mirror, Page will determine who's the fairest of them all.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
The voice artists brought these characters to life in postproduction, but the motion capture actors are the ones who gave the robots their soul.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
In a film industry increasingly fixated on the bigger, better and bolder — from CGI to motion capture or greenscreen technology — nothing gets Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham more excited than traditional stop-motion animation.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
The remake’s solution combines motion capture performance technology larded with digital animation from a presumable army of effects houses, with Bashful voiced by Tituss Burgess, Dopey handled by Andrew Barth Feldman and so on.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
The voice artists brought these characters to life in postproduction, but the motion capture actors are the ones who gave the robots their soul.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
In a film industry increasingly fixated on the bigger, better and bolder — from CGI to motion capture or greenscreen technology — nothing gets Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham more excited than traditional stop-motion animation.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
The remake’s solution combines motion capture performance technology larded with digital animation from a presumable army of effects houses, with Bashful voiced by Tituss Burgess, Dopey handled by Andrew Barth Feldman and so on.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Motion capture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motion%20capture. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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