SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

For cutscenes in a typical AAA game, a voice-actor provides dialogue while a performance artist does the motion capture. Finally, animators handkey the face and cameras. It can take between 30-40 ...

Seven months after "Mars Needs Moms" led to questions about the future of motion-capture animation, Steven Spielberg is showing that audiences might not have totally rejected the technique, after all.

Digital Double, a motion capture and animation studio located in downtown Redmond, hosted the first session of its one-week summer immersion programs for teens from July 6-10. “In one week, our ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Should a film made using the motion-capture technique qualify as an animated movie at the Oscars, or is it something else? Does the answer to that last question change if ...