In recognition of over 10 years of success with Vicon motion capture systems for production, the Academy for the Performing Arts awarded the company an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. So whether for TV or film production, full CG character animation feature or VFX shot, real-time or offline, Vicon can help.

HIGH FIDELITY CHARACTER ANIMATION
For full frame character animation there is no substitute - motion capture is now a routine technique for creating believable full size characters on set and on screen. Mocap used to be the technology for the background characters - those days are over.  Foreground characters are now routinely animated using Vicon motion capture systems.  Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks and The Moving Picture Company all use Vicon systems as a standard component of their VFX arsenals.

FIRST UNIT CAPABLE
Live action, green screen, 25 people on set and optical motion capture.  Prior to Vicon MX, those things would never have been possible simultaneously. Now they are - and routinely. With "on the fly" calibration and intelligent cameras coupled with studio integration tools like SMTPE, Genlock and remote triggering, Vicon is right at home on the first unit set. Just ask Audiomotion - click here to find out more about what Audiomotion achieved on Gullivers Travel and Narnia with a Vicon system.

CAPTURE MULTIPLE ACTORS SIMULTANEOUSLY
Vicon makes capturing multiple actor shots easy. Whether in big volumes or not, because of the high resolution T-Series cameras, you get super high detail. Users routinely capture 8 actors simultaneously.

SCALABILITY BUILT-IN
Vicon scales as your production needs dictate. The system can do this because everything in Vicon MX is effectively a network device – the cameras, the synchronization box, the timecode/genlock box. So if you want a bigger system, you just add more cameras each connected to the sync units with one cable -- One cable which carries all the power and the data.

REAL-TIME
Real data on real CG characters in real-time.  Allow your talent and your director to see the motion applied to CG right there at the time of capture - ensuring that the right performance comes through.

HIGH QUALITY. HIGH ACCURACY.
The MX system delivers the cleanest data. Pure, high quality, high accuracy. Vicon does this because inevery step of the capture process from the design of the marker to the design of the export software, the focus is on preserving the fidelity of the move. This quality focus means you get the most believable animations available.

PERFORMANCE CAPTURE
Never before have both face and body data been captured during the same performance with enough fidelity to make it to the big screen. Vicon MX erases this limitation.  Face, full body, and hand captures are now possible all on the same actor on the same stage at the same time. The Vicon T160 camera, with 16 megapixels processing 256 shades of grayscale in every frame make it possible. Read how the NHL / Stan Lee's Guardian Media Group Entertainment captured the Guardian Project at Vicon House of Moves with Vicon Technology.

POWER TOOLS
Powerful tools to finish even the jobs that go horribly wrong – the ability to can a shot that was not perfect. Vicon's Blade software pipeline saves you time and money. Easy to setup and use with a well designed workflow allowing for fast turnaround of previz and final shots needing fewer people than other motion capture systems.

On one recent film shoot, shots were being delivered in minutes on the mocap studio floor by one person who was also capturing data at the same time. This was thanks to the automated pipelines that learn your specific and unique processes and way of working and then automates it in a savable pipeline process file.

PRODUCTION READY
Vicon MX has been designed with production in mind. This is why the system offers full master and slave timecode support and genlock abilities, including the ability to uplock from broadcast and film frame rates (24/25/30 fps) to the higher rates of motion capture (up to 1000 fps). It even makes shooting Pick-ups easy because it is straightforward to unpack the system, set it up and shoot.

EXPERIENCED - FROM TITANIC TO TRON
Been there, seen it, done it, got the Academy Award. Vicon systems have been used in film and television production for over 10 years. This broad experience shows in the system's design and every day of its use.

VICON BONITA

Working with a smaller budget? Vicon Bonita offers the same high quality Vicon optical data at a more economical price point. Gain access to Vicon Blade, the same technology used by bluechip developers all over the world and a larger scale mocap volume compared to equivalent price point solutions. Bonita easily captures the movements of slow and fast moving objects with capture speeds of 240FPS. With its small size and single cable ethernet connection, a Bonita optical capture system is much less intrusive than inertial systems; there’s no need to worry about cables getting in the way or damaging active markers. And you can rely on accurate positional data every time.

Sample Customers

Anima Vitae Ltd
Audiomotion
Blur Studio
Computed Animated Technology
Crytek Studios
Cyper Entertainment
Dida Video Production Co Ltd
Digimax Production Center Co Ltd
Digial Domain
Digital Dream Studio
Digital Media Lab Inc
Grape City
Griot Inc
Industrial Light & Magic
Kaydara
Links Digiworks
LocoMotion Studios
Mill Film
Moving Picture Company
Naray Digital Entertainment
Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)
Ocon Inc.
Philos Entertainment RT
Pixomondo
Prograph Research srl
Rhythm & Hues
Space Illusion Inc.
Synthetique
V-Star
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