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means A filmmaking technique that records a real person's movements with sensors or cameras and transfers that motion onto a digital character.
from A 20th-century coinage built from plain English parts — 'motion' (from Latin 'motio', movement) plus 'capture' (from Latin 'capere', to seize). The term rose with the technology itself: early experiments in the 1970s-80s used reflective markers and cameras to digitize human movement for animation and biomechanics research, and the phrase simply described what the system did — it captured motion. It entered wider pop culture as the technique powered video game characters and, famously, performance-driven film roles.
- origin
- Pioneered for gait research long before it hit hollywood
- gollum effect
- Andy Serkis acted scenes actors physically shared
- actors still needed
- Software tracks motion, not emotion or timing
- face rigs
- Modern suits capture eyebrows better than armies of dots