AUDIOMOTION WINS PRESTIGIOUS BEST SERVICES AT DEVELOP AWARDS

 

22 September 2009, Oxford, UK: Vicon, the award winning motion capture provider, would like to congratulate its customer Audiomotion on winning Best Services at the 2009 Develop awards for the 2nd time.

Audiomotion is a full performance capture and motion capture studio based in Oxford. Its 6000 square foot capture studio is the largest in Europe and is equipped with 130 Vicon cameras.

“The list of titles that mocap house Audiomotion has worked on this year is all we really need to say: DJ Hero, Guitar Hero, Killzone 2, Harry Potter, Bionic Commando, Terminator: Salvation and Pro Evolution Soccer,” said Develop magazine in its Awards Guide. “No wonder they’re the largest Vicon studio outside of North America.”

Mick Morris, Managing Director at Audiomotion said: “We’re incredibly proud to have won this award. What makes all the hard work so worthwhile is that it’s voted for by industry peers, which means a lot to us. We’ve been lucky enough to have worked on some truly amazing titles this past year, something which I hope will continue for 2010.”

Imogen Moorhouse, Managing Director at Vicon said: “This is a great achievement, not only to be nominated, but to win against such tough competition. Congratulations to Audiomotion!”

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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 Entertainment 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 de fence 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.

About Audiomotion
Audiomotion Studios is the multi-award winning, UK motion capture studio. For over10 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

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