INTERNET SENSATION ‘GREG MUTT’ CREATED WITH VICON MOTION CAPTURE

June 18 2010, Oxford, UK: Vicon, developer of motion capture products for the Entertainment, Life Science and Engineering industries, today announced that YouTube sensation Greg Mutt was created using Vicon motion capture technology. Greg is an animated character, well known for his comedy review of the film Avatar, on YouTube.

The full service motion capture studio, Audiomotion, teamed up with animation specialists Busty Kelp, to create the YouTube character. Greg Mutt was originally designed to showcase the skills and ability of the two studios, using a spin off character from the hugely popular Avatar.

Greg’s ‘Blue hippy cats my avatar review’ has had over 210,000 views on YouTube since it was posted in February earlier this year. His success within the animation industry encouraged rumors to spread about who had created the much loved character.

Vicon motion capture technology played a huge role in the process. Paul Smith, Managing Director at Busty Kelp comments: “We captured the face and body mocap at the same time, with hardly any rework needed on the facial data. I wanted to see how much I could achieve with the motion capture, which meant hardly any of the data was keyframed.”

Mick Morris, Managing Director at Audiomotion explains how Greg became a reality, “We had a couple of day’s free in-between filming for a client. We were on location so thought it would be a good idea to make use of the time and a fully set-up performance capture stage.

“Paul suggested the idea of Greg to me and I thought it was brilliant. It’s been a massively exciting project to be involved with, and I’m so pleased that the animation has had such a great response from the industry!”

Imogen Moorhouse, Managing Director at Vicon congratulated the team. “Greg Mutt is a YouTube sensation and it’s thrilling to see such a positive response. Vicon is proud to have played a part in the creation of such a well loved character. I hope Paul and Mick continue to entertain us all with more installments from Greg in the future!”

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About Audiomotion

Audiomotion Studios is the multi-award winning, UK motion capture studio. For over 10 years Audiomotion has specialized in the provision of motion capture services to the game development, film and television industries. Their 6,000 sq. ft. facility is equipped with 130 MX40 cameras, enabling the largest in-house capture area in Europe.

Full Performance Capture is Audiomotion’s solution to capturing facial performance, fingers, fullbody and final audio simultaneously. The solution is being employed by many studios across Europe.

For more information visit www.audiomotion.com or call +44 (0) 870 1600 504 or email info@audiomotion.com

About Vicon

Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, and match moving software. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries.  Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based headquarters.

Vicon is a subsidiary of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the Entertainment, Defense, Life Science and Engineering markets.  Other holdings include: 2d3, a manufacturer of specialized image understanding software for defense applications; Yotta DCL our highways surveying business in the UK; and Yotta MVS, a leading US provider of data collection services for the assessment of property taxation.

 

Vicon and OMG global clients include: Life Science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, The Andrews Institute; Engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and Entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others. 

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.vicon.com/boujou, www.2d3.com, www.yotta.tv, or www.yottamvs.com. 

 

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