BrainBar Studio
Performance Capture Workshop 2025
BrainBar Studio is launching industry workshops from February 2025, where you can immerse yourself in digital universes with computer generated characters animated optically tracking human actors!
Why use mocap? What can it replace? How is it beneficial, and what does it require?
Together, through 7 workshop session, each focusing on a different aspect of performance capture, we will answer these questions. You will learn what it takes to integrate mocap into your next production, while networking with other Film-, TV-, and Games professionals.
You can participate in one or all depending on your goal and interest.
We welcome all functions; whether you're a director, DOP, 3D artist, technical operator, producer, performer or other, we encourage you to join.
Each week, a new host will run the session, along with guest speakers who will deliver presentations on their area of expertise, featuring case studies tailored to the session's topic. You’ll experience a varied day that’s both hands-on and informative.
The workshops are intended for in-person participation, and will be streamed live for remote audiences.
A session is approx. 4 hours, with a break at the midpoint.
Mondays from the 3rd of February to the 17th of March in our Mocap Volume at BrainBar Studio, Guldalderen 15, Hedehusene.
Sessions:
1: Introduction to Performance mocap
2: Planning, Production and financials when using mocap.
3: Workflow when recording mocap - new roles onset & pipeline
4: PREVIS, how to use mocap when previsualising
5: Acting in performance capture
6: Stuntwork in performance capture
7: Post-production
For more information on a specific session, see details below.
Course Details
Venue: BrainBar Studio, Guldalderen 15, 2640 Hedehusene, and online
Date: Every monday, 03 February - 17 March 2025
Time: 10:00–14:00
Morning Coffee: 09:30–10:00
Light Lunch: 12:00–12:30
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Session 1: Introduction to Performance Mocap
Venue
BrainBar Studio
Guldalderen 15, 2640 Hedehusene
Online
Also streaming live at youtube.com/@brainbarstudio
Date
3. February 2025
Time
Kl. 10.00 - 14.00
(morning coffee 09.30 - 10.00)
(lunch break 12.00 - 12.30)
What is Performance capture, and what do you need to know.
The first session is about defining the scope of ideas, and discussing which ideas are easy and appropriate for Pcap, and which are difficult. Included in this discussion is when to start thinking Pcap into your production, and at what point you would contact us. In short, the Pcap process from development, to pre-production, shooting, and post.
We will show what challenges different character types, hair, faces, hands, bring with, and run through how to handle these and place your ideas in the digital world.
We will touch on previz of an idea, and explain the vCam method. The connection between the real and digital world is foundational, and we'll show how a mocap actor and a camera operator can work together with live rendering, to plan out creative sequences and shoot digital camera moves with the same finesse as a physical camera.
