Performance Capture for Stage, Film and Games

A round-up of links for further exploration of performance capture, offered with respect and gratitude to the massively talented graduating RADA actors who participated in the first-ever Shadowpox workshop – Fehinti Balogun, Natasha Cowley, Sayre Fox, Skye Hallam, Tom Martin, Polly Misch, Abraham Popoola, Maisie Robinson and Jamael Westman.

Classic capture: on screen

• Motion Capture Maestro Andy Serkis on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Revolutionizing Cinema
• Video: Behind the scenes on Coldplay's "Adventure of a Lifetime" 
• Video: The making of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• 'The BFG' Visual Effects Whiz Joe Letteri Makes the Case for Motion-Capture Performances
• A Failed Final Fantasy Film Brought Hollywood Around on Motion Capture
• 15 Actors Who Nailed Motion Capture Performances ; 10 Best Motion Capture Performances Ever

Acting for video games

• Performance Capture and Interactivity: RADA grad Pascal Langdale talks about acting for interaction, both in semi-improvised theatre, and in recorded works like the game Heavy Rain
• Video: Beyond: Two Souls – Capturing Performance
• Video: Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us

The next frontier: capture in live performance

• Facial Capture: The basics, part 1
• Masks, Morphing and Live Motion Capture: Part 2 – the new tech's old roots
• Supernaturalism: Part 3 – beyond the how, into the why
• The RSC's motion-capture Tempest  
• What's New, Pussycat?: wonder.land at the National