Captures high fidelity performances involving multiple actors, props and finger tracking; and exports animation data to media, entertainment, and health industries in various formats.
NAIT’s Motion Capture Studio within the Centre for Innovative Media has professional technicians with over 10 years’ experience producing animation for TV and film and video games. Their staff has worked on some of the most watched and played titles globally. The studio was built in partnership with industry and includes Vicon’s latest optical motion capture with the ability to capture up to 120 frames per second.
- Produce animation for film, video game, advertising use cases
- Retargeting actor motions to any type of character or creature
- Timecoding and video recording of performances
- Treadmill support to capture cyclical animation
- Provide student actors when requested
- Prop design and prop capture including stilts and/or leg extensions
- Stunt actor and stunt actions supported in a large capture volume
- Basic rigging construction to assist in cinematic shoots
- Human kinematics and anatomical studies (sports, medicine, advertising)
- Arts and cultural industries
- Education
- Healthcare and social services
- Information and communication technologies and media
Specialized labs and equipment
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Equipment |
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2000 sq. ft. studio space:
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Features change room, prop room, floor to ceiling windows and 12,000 cubic feet capture volume with a client side viewscreen. The capture volume supports multiple actors, crash mats for broad actions, actors on stilts / treadmills. |
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Vicon camera system:
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Motion capture camera system
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Vicon Shogun 1.5xx Software |
Live calibration and post-production software
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Motion capture suits with markers (small, medium, large) |
Worn by actors during motion capture shoots |
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Dell EMC Isilon H500 Storage (H500-2.2GHZ/10C/128G+15x2TB SAT/1.6TB) |
High performance media storage (hybrid Network Attached Storage (NAS)) |
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Dell EMC DSS 8440 Cauldron Machine Learning Server |
High performance for machine learning applications |
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DELL Precision 7920 Workstation |
Processes animation |
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Vicon Nexus 2.0 Network Software |
Life science software package |