For over 10 years, Vicon has provided dedicated capture systems for game production; and over that time it’s come a long way. From 30 markers to 100s of markers, from single person to more than 10 people, from offline to real-time, from 50 or so moves in the game to 1000s of moves.
With market-leading hardware and proven production pipeline tools for game engines and CG FMV production, Vicon can offer you the most advanced, most experienced motion capture system available for game production. So whether sports, sim, or fantasy, next generation “next gen” or old school, first person or third person, Vicon can get the moves you need.
GAME HARDENED
Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo, Microsoft Games, Sega, Konami, Capcom, Bizarre Creations, Indestructible. Massive volumes. Multi-character. Simultaneous face, hand and body capture. APIs to enable direct export to game engines. Vicon systems have provided specialized game capture systems for more than 15 years – it shows.
MULTIPLE ACTORS. HUGE VOLUMES.
Vicon T-Series can scale. If you want to capture multiple performers at the same time, you just add more markers on more people (capturing 8 people can be routine). If you want bigger volumes (like full basketball courts or ice hockey rinks), you just add more cameras. And it is really that easy - buy more and plug them in - upgrading is simple. Whatever the move, actor count or capture space, you can get it done with Vicon.
REAL-TIME
With Vicon T-Series, you can see if you’ve got the move before you go on to the next. You can see the captured move as it happens, so you need never miss another move again. Furthermore, unlike other systems, Vicon MX doesn’t separate real-time and offline - there is no separate application for running in real-time, you run both with the same software – so there’s only one system to learn. All of this while simultaneously recording the raw video data to disk. You will always have ALL of your data.
AIN'T NO MAMMOTH
You don’t need a huge team doing data capture or clean-up with Vicon. That’s why it’s used by more motion capture studios than any other system. You can turn out vast numbers of moves and move combinations with relatively few people because Vicon MX preserves the quality every step. Precision and efficiencies stem from the industry's most accurate calibration algorithms, to the raw 2D, 256 shade grayscale video data, to 3D data more precisely (down to better than one-hundredth of a millimeter in some cases), to the intuitive automatic or manual clean-up tools. Vicon MX offers direct interfaces into CG packages and game engines.
Why is all of this important? New game console demands include massive quantities of animation data without any real change the timelines allotted to creating those quantities. You simply need to be able to turn out more with less effort - this is why we built Vicon MX.
FLEXIBLE - LARGE & SMALL VOLUMES
Sometimes you need to capture 500 full-body moves, sometimes you want just 50 but with face data – with Vicon you don’t need multiple systems and setups. Vicon T-Series cameras are so straightforward to setup, reconfiguring for a face shoot is a question of minutes not hours. The system ships with calibration wands for both large and small volumes, so there is no new kit to buy. In fact, Vicon is so flexible thatyou don’t even have to have a dedicated facility – you can just take it out of the box, stick it up and start capturing. Vicon can even make major league sports teams happy – now you can go to them, rather than them to you. Need to shoot 15 of the world's best tennis players during a tournament week? Vicon
T-Series wins the match in straight sets.
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.
VICON CARE
Vicon prides itself on the support and customer care provided to our users and supporters. Having been involved in game production for more than 10 years, and being the parent company of the world's leading motion capture service bureau, House of Moves, Vicon can offer deep experience and technical solutions to our games customers.
Sample Customers
Acclaim Studios Teeside
Acquire Corporation
Activision
Animaccord Studio
Ambient Entertainment GMBH
Aries Annecy
Audiomotion
Bohemia Interactive
Brainfactor Entertainment KFT
Capcom
Creative Assembly
Crytek Studios
EA
EA: UK
Enix
Epic Games
Free Radical Design
Game Republic
KAZe Co. Ltd.
Konami
Level 5 Inc
Microsoft
Midway Games
NAMCO
Nintendo
Philos Entertainment RT
Quantic Dream
Rare
Retro Studios
Rocksteady Ltd
Solworks
Space Illusion Inc.
Square Enix
Sony Computer Entertainment America
Sony Computer Entertainment Australia
THQ
Ubisoft
Z-Up productions
