Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has chosen VICON to fulfill its motion-capture needs, purchasing an 86-camera VICON MX 40 system for its new, state of the art studio in Vancouver, Canada. The new rig will give EA the ability to capture more data, including simultaneous full body and facial capture from a single- or multiple-actor performance.
According to VICON, EA chose the VICON MX 40 system for its unprecedented 4 mega-pixel grey-scale camera resolution, its highly flexible and automatable post-production toolset, and the resulting ability to produce immense volumes of high-fidelity data quickly and efficiently.
Having acquired Los Angeles, Calif-based mo-cap leader House of Moves in June of 2004 and Denver, Col.-based competitor Peak Performance Technologies Inc. in February of this year, VICON is quickly cornering the mo-cap market. In June, the Academy Award-winning company formed the VICON Feature Unit (VFU), a Los Angeles-based entity dedicated to on-the-ground consulting, custom service, development and pipeline building for customers in the areas of film, television, video games, virtual prototyping and biomechanical analysis, among others.
High-profile projects that have used VICON systems include Titanic, the Star Wars prequels, Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express and Best Visual Effects Oscar winner Spider-Man 2. The company’s next-generation VICON MX real-time optical motion-capture systems boast ultra-high-resolution, virtually artifact-free capture. For more information, go to www.vicon.com.
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