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Farthest

Farthest North

EA Canada - Burnaby, BC Rainmaker - Vancouver, B.C


Farthest West

ILM - San Fransisco C.A Mova - San Francisco CA


Farthest South

Weta - Wellington, New Zealand


Farthest East

 Tokyo, Japan at Night

Imagica, Japan


Non-Realtime

First simultaneous face, body and hand capture of multiple talent - Optical

Polar Express - 2002 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most talent in a single take

21 talent - Beowulf - 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most talented talent in a motion capture volume

Two time oscar winner Tom Hanks - 2002


Most Simultaneous Face, Body & Hand Capture in a single take

21 talent - Beowulf - 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most animal and human capture in a single take

4 Horses, 12 talent - Beowulf - 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Largest Motion capture volume (Body, Hand, Face)

Caesar: Rise of the Apes -210' x 120' x 16' tall - w/ 4 people at once

Avatar - 60' x 30' - w/ 10 people at once

Beowulf - 25W x 25L x 16H - w/ 18 people at once


Most face, body and hand data captured per day

1.5 Terabytes - Beowulf - 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most facial markers used to capture facial motion in a feature film

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_78wgd5ujqrc/TDVk72E73KI/AAAAAAAAdSk/5UcOG2crNL4/CrudupCLAYENOS.jpg

165 - used on Billy Crudup as he played Dr. Manhattan in 'The Watchmen'


Highest resolution facial capture

 

http://ict.usc.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Digital-Emily_1440x900-695x434.jpg

ICT Lightstage

Mova Contour shape capture


Tallest person ever captured

7'1" (2.16M) - Shaquille O'Neal - for NBA 2K6, Visual Concepts - 2005 - House of moves


Shortest person ever captured

http://www.agentonehalf.com/ArturoGIl.jpg

3'6" - Arturo Gill Actor - House of Moves


Real Time

First face, body and hand capture in a volume

 

Lamb and Company -1997


First simultaneous face, body and hand capture of multiple talent - Magnetic

Modern Cartoons -1999


Most realtime talent - Optical

15 people - weta - avatar

13 people -Giant - Animal Logic - Happy Feet - 2007

 


 

Most lucrative movie ever made using motion capture technology - Avatar - 2.45 Billion

 


 

 

Most realtime talent - Magnetic

5 people - The Getaway - Sony Online Europe - Ascension


Largest realtime volume

SquidBall - 240' x 40' x 40' - 2004

House Of Moves - 110’ x 50’ x 20’ high - 2007

Giant - 72'L x 36'W x 15.5'H - Avatar - 2007


Most people motion captured over a 3 day period

Phase Space system at SIGGRAPH every year ~150 different people with about 15 minutes of motion capture per person.


Most painful motion ever captured

Jon Heder breaking his foot, mid-way through a take on monster house - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most interactive capture

Squidball - The entire Siggraph audience took place in an interactive capture where a beach-ball was used as a game piece in a 'breakout' style game - as the audience hit the ball the game ball would update accordingly


Largest markers

 

The markers used in Squidball at Siggraph 2004


WEIRDEST Weirdest capture - Misc

Sperm tracking - Motion Analysis - 1982


Weirdest capture - Animal


 

 



Spider and Ant capture

Iguana

Elephant

Kangaroo

Horse

Cat (large and small)

Dog

Camel

Reesus Monkey

Wild Deer

Cockroach


Coldest Capture

snowb

-10 degrees Fahrenheit.- XSENS  captured a skier and snowboarder at Vail Resorts

watch the  video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPrYftacFg

 



Strangest capture volume - large

Broadway Street, in New York city was calibrated by people driving up and down the street in cars with markers the size of beach balls.

Cameras were mounted on nearby buildings


Strangest capture volume - small

Inside the 'Vomit Comet' - the plane NASA uses to simulate weightlessness


First person 'brought back from the dead' using mocap


Marlena Diedrich - Virtual Celebrity

Orville Redenbacher - Digital Domain


First person aged artificially in a feature film, using motion capture

Brad Pitt - Benjamin Buttons - 2008


Most unusual place to capture

On a Caribbean beach - Pirates II - ILM - 2005

In space - spinal capture was done on astronauts to observe the effects of zero g on spines


Strangest thing captured

 

Sex - actual sex was captured for an interactive porn DVD - a complete move tree was shot of all positions and transitions - shot naked

Earthquakes - an earthquake simulator in japan


Most

Most Cameras Ever used in one volume

234 - Beowulf - 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most Cameras used over entire production

Polar Express - 254 - 86 on stage 2 - 120 on stage 3 - 48 on stage 4


Most markers used on a movie

120,000 2.7mm's - Polar Express - 2002 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most actors captured over the course of a movie

80 - Avatar 2010 - Giant

65 - Beowulf 2007 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Most original mocap suit

Dr Manhattan tracking suit - 2009 - Watchmen - Sony Pictures

Pirates pattern tracking suit - 2006 - ILM


Most unusual mocap suit

None - a dance troupe captured dancers totally nude - including markers...you know where...

See also 'strangest thing ever captured'


Most dangerous capture

Matrix II PMS flying Rig (the Please Make it stop rig) = sentinal attack simulator - Spectrum Studios

matrixrig


Most famous actor(s) captured

Angelina Jolie

Jim Carrey

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3633/3672961695_fb86b9b558.jpg

Tom Hanks

Johnny Depp

Keanu Reeves

Anthony Hopkins

Bruce Willis

Steve Buscemi

Kathleen Turner

Robin Wright-Penn

John Malcovitch

Ray Winstone

Brendon Gleeson

Alison Lohman

Kevin James

Hugo Weaving

Bill Nighy

Crispin Glover

Carrie-Anne Moss

Fred Willard

Maggie Gyllenhall

Jason Lee

Nick Cannon

Jon Heder

Arnold Vosleau

Eric Bana

Kristanna Loken

Conan O'Brien

Ang Lee

Andy Sirkis


Most famous Mime captured


Marcel Marceau


Most famous dancer captured


Merce Cunningham

 

Savion Glover

 



Most famous musician captured

Michael Jackson - Digital Domain - House of Moves U2

Aerosmith

Radio Head

Busta Rhymes

Jay K - Jamiroquai


Most famous athlete captured


Tiger Woods - EA Canada

Shaquille O'neil

David Genola

Tim Duncan

Michael Vic -nike gamebreakers

Terrell Owens -nike gamebreakers


Most famous Martial Artist captured


Jacky Chan - Future Light Studios

Jet Li - SCEA


Largest

Largest capture studio (permanent)


Electronic Arts Canada - 155,000sq ft custom built for mocap

SCEA 144,000 sq ft


Longest

Longest continous time spent capturing for a single video game


140 days (included both body and facial) Quantic Dream : Heavy Rain (PS 3 exclusive title)

Six Months - Enter The Matrix - 2000 - Spectrum Studios


Longest continuous time time spent capturing for a single movie - Live Action

 

http://images.vizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/avatar-mocap-530x299.png

3 years  - AVATAR - Giant

1 Month - Matrix III - 2000 - Spectrum Studios


Longest continous time spent capturing for a single movie - CG

 

3 months - Polar Express - 2002 - Sony Pictures, Imageworks


Longest continuous time spent motion capturing for a tv show

1998 - 2002 - Cita's World BET - Motion Analysis

10 - 45 minute episodes captured per week


Highest capture area (face and body)

  

 

- Avatar Stunt fall volume - 40ft


Highest capture studio (on earth)

 

Konami - 47th floor


Highest capture volume (in space)

 

Aboard the space station


Highest Resolution Camera

Vicon T160 16 megapixel camera


Lowest capture

 

Underwater capture - Peak Performance - in an olympic swimming pool


Most violent use of motion capture

 

U.S. Military is using motion capture on the battlefield to track troop and enemy movements in realtime


Oldest man ever captured

Martin Daniels - Oldest Man Ever Motion Captured

74 - Martin Daniels - 'Stina and the Wolf' - Pipe Catcher character -

FOAM Digital, University of Portsmouth, UK


Oldest woman ever captured

http://ertprotectsyou.com/images/grandma.jpg

74 - Matrix III - zion 'old woman' background capture - Spectrum Studios


Youngest boy every captured

http://www.mech.unimelb.edu.au/images/right/gait-analysis.jpg

fred goodchild - 9 months old - Nuffield Orthopaedic center, Oxford. Vicon System


Youngest girl ever captured

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/13/gal_ilm-41.jpg

Lucy Ray - 10 months old - Nuffield Orthopaedic center, Oxford. Vicon System


Heaviest person ever captured

http://poi.sagepub.com/content/29/3/269/F2.small.gif

380 pounds - 6' 1" steven debonepres - Spectrum Studios


Earliest use of Human Motion to drive the animation of a digital character

1962 - Animac - Lee Harrison III


First Motion Captured awards show host

2000 - Ms. AIAS - Awards Show, Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Virtual Ventures / Spectrum Studios - Ascension


First Motion Captured Talk show host - TV

 

David Tench - David Tench Tonight - Animal Logic - Vicon


First Commercial made using Motion Capture - optical

1990 - FIFA World Cup - Superfluo - BTS ELITE


First Commercial with face and body Motion Capture - optical

1992 - Pensylvania Lottery - Superfluo - BTS ELITE


First use of mocap to drive animatronics and cg simultaneously

1995 - Henson Studios U.K. - vicon - mary reilly


First video game made using Motion Capture - Arcade

1995 -Soul Edge - Namco - TSI


First video game made using Motion Capture - Console / PC

1995 - Actua Soccer 1996 - Viva football 1996 - Fifa 96


First animal Motion Captured - TV

1992 - Deer - CBS Winter Olympics promo - Superfluo


First animal Motion Captured - Film

1997 - Rhesus Monkey - Lost in Space - Henson U.K. 1998 - TSI - Monkey - Mighty Joe Young


First Motion Capture and live action - TV

 

http://www.ascension-tech.com/realtime/animation/anim_cleo.jpg

1994 -Bert the Fish -MediaLab

1997 - Merlin - Jim Henson's Creature Shop - UK


First all CG TV show made using Motion Capture - magnetic

 

1997 - Donkey Kong Country - Medialab


First all CG TV show made using Motion Capture - optical

 

1998 - Voltron - Motion Analysis


First Music video made using Motion Capture - CG & live action

 

1992 - 'Steam' - Peter Gabriel - Super Fluo 1995 - 'Dont go chasin waterfalls' - TLC


First Music video using body Motion Capture - all CG

 

1994 - 'Dis is da drum' - Herbie Hancock


First Music video using face and body Motion Capture - all CG

2000 - 'Soljas' - Master P - CAT studios


First animated movie made using Motion Capture - full length

Sinbad, Beyond the Veil of Mists - 1998 - House of moves


First animated movie made using Motion Capture - short film

1989 - 'Don't Touch Me' - Kleizer Walzac - Motion Analysis


First Oscar CG

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/georgemiller-WI-022607.jpg

Happy Feet - Dancing Penguins - Animal Logic / Miller Productions - 2007


Most Successful Motion Capture related film at the box office

http://splinedoctors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/avatar.jpg

Avatar

 


 

First Oscar VFX

http://www.reverseshot.com/files/images/issue23/curious-case-benjamin-button.jpg

Titanic - Digital Domain - House of Moves

Benjamin Buttons - Digital Domain


First live-action movie to feature body motion capture

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/images/logos/thelawnmowerman.gif

Lawnmower Man -1991


First live-action movie to feature facial motion capture

 

Lost in Space - Gary Oldman - 1997


First outdoor capture - feature film

MOTEK - 1997 - Motaro & Kintaro - Mortal Combat Annihilation


Worst Animated movie made using Motion Capture - full length

Sinbad, Beyond the Veil of Mists - Pentamedia - 1998 - House of moves


Worst use of motion capture

To give people speeding tickets


Fastest motion capture

  Body capture, inside the Japanese 'bullet' train Shinsenkan running between Osaka and Tokyo at 270 KM/hour - Xsens

Fastest object captured

Bullets

Missiles

Airplanes

crash testing cars