The Faculty's Motion Capture Laboratory is of an industry standard, allowing students and staff to use the same world-class system as leading animation production companies worldwide.

The MoCap Lab uses a Vicon optical system which allows human movement to be captured by a series of cameras and then encoded as digital data. These data allow animators to produce characters with life-like movement. The MoCap Lab is enhanced with Motion Builder software to allow the captured movement to be applied to the movement of characters which do not conform to human body dimensions.

The work of a motion capture system is best known through the development of the Gollum character in The Lord of the Rings trilogy or the characters in the
Oscar-winning animation, Happy Feet.

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