History Main / MotionCapture

* ''HeavenlySword'' used this for facial expressions in cutscenes.

* ''{{Uncharted}}: Drake's Fortune'' (2007), ''Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'' (2009) and ''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception'' (2011), although Naughty Dog still insists on doing facial animation manually. They are continuing the trend with ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''.

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* More and more common in video games, especially {{Fighting Game}}s. Incredibly helpful to make 3d martial arts manoeuvres look authentic to have an actual martial artist recording said manoeuvre. Granted, there's some problems if the move's mapped onto someone drastically different from the attacker or defender, but adds a little verisimilitude.

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* Machinima/RedVsBlue: starting in Season 8, battle sequences started being done using motion capture (including most of the insanely awesome Episode 10). Seasons 9 and 10 furthered the motion capture work with all of the Freelancer scenes being entirely motion capture.

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* WesternAnimation/FoodFight was among the first, production wise, animation films to use the tech. However, it wasn't exactly the best. It was noted in the Nostalgia Critic review that it seemed as if the characters' expressed themselves mostly through awkwardly waving their arms, and it's more akin to watching C3PO suffer a seizure. Spending ten years in DevelopmentHell meant that it looked kind of dated compared to later films that used motion capture successfully.

* ''EnterTheMatrix'' (2003) had all actor's movements, combos and speech mo-capped. This resulted in the very smooth movements, unfortunately overshadow by graphics, obsolete even by 2003 standards.

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->''"Motion Capture vill take over ze ''vorld!''"''
-->-- '''Andy Serkis''', ''Film/KingKong'' (2005) gag reel.

* Several JimHenson Productions that use CGI characters have used a puppet-like armature covered in sensors, to allow the company's puppeteers to animate the character in real-time using their existing skills; Henson puppeteers regularly perform by watching their own actions on a video monitor. Generally, the low-quality real-time render is redone as a better render afterward.

* The [[Film/{{Tintin}} film adaptation of]] ''{{Tintin}}'' is also based on these.

* Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls (2013), another David Cage game just like HeavyRain, also used full motion capture and starred EllenPage and Willem Dafoe as ink suit actors.

* ''VideoGames/GhostHunter'' (2003)

* ''GhostHunter'' (2003)

* Used InUniverse in ''Film/GurdgeMatch'', where Razor and Kid both get motion captured for a boxing videogame.

* WesternAnimation/FoodFight was among the first, production wise, animation films to use the tech.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' (2003) had ReubenLangdon, Daniel Southworth, and Stephanie Cheeva mocap as Dante, Vergil, and Lady respectively.
** ''Devil May Cry 4'' (2008) had Reuben reprise as Dante, while JohnnyYongBosch was Nero's mocap actor.

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* ''TombRaider: Underworld'' (2008) used motion capture of gymnast Heidi Moneymaker for Lara's acrobatics.
** ''Underworld'' is the first of the TombRaider games to use motion capture.

* This was used for LANoire to help achieve detailed emotions on characters faces.

* ''Halo4'' made extensive use of MoCap for cutscene animations, both body and face.

* For ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', MMA fighter Bas Rutten was used as the motion actor for Nico's martial arts. Bas was also given a cameo as himself in one of the in-game TV shows.