Avatar, The lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Mummy, The Polar express, the list includes many other movies which caught the eyeballs of audience because of the outstanding performance of the characters or some of the mind blowing scenes. These movies have one thing common in them and that is “The Performance Capture Technology”. Recently, first Indian movie Kochadaiiyaan has also added in the list.
What is this Performance Capture Technique? Why film makers are using such technology? The answer to these questions is to connect some reality into the characters. Remember Oscar winning movie, The Lord of two Rings’ character “Gollum”. This technique make virtual characters convincing, so that they can have more than just walk-on parts in live-action films, does not always require them to look human; they may, after all, be aliens or robots or monsters.
There is a huge leap in realism and audience engagement when virtual characters’ movements and facial expressions can be controlled by actors. The technology that makes this possible—in effect, using the performance of an actor as a means of operating a virtual puppet—is called “performance capture”.
Performance capture refers to the practice of capturing very fine movements from real actors and using those in animation. Performance capture poses two distinct problems: capturing body movements, known as motion capture, and capturing facial expressions. The first problem is easier to solve. A simple form of motion capture is to film somebody performing a particular motion, and then trace over individual frames. This produces more life-like motion than having an animator draw each frame from scratch.
Movies where characters are not real like, Ice Age, they are fine without this technique. But in the movies where animation portrays real characters, this technique can add up minor details in the character. This technique is gaining popularity. Day by day movies are using techniques, from which one cannot distinguish between the real and virtual characters. One thing you can theoretically do with this performance capture technology is record a broad array of facial expressions with a famous actor, and continues featuring that performance in new movies long after their demise.
This technique directly works within Maya & Motion Builder. It produces a fully rigged, expressive avatar and can export to use in 3D Application. Both the software Maya & Motion Builder are the key part of CG Mantra Animation & VFX training Institute to youngster. At the same time Academy is in the process of acquiring such latest technology for its students.
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