The Performance Capture Podcast

The Performance Capture Podcast

By Victoria AtkinTV & FilmArtsPerforming Arts
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The Performance Capture Podcast episodes

  • Season 4 – Episode 08 – REMINGTON SCOTT - CEO OF HYPERREAL, MOCAPPING GOLUM AND MORE
    Remington is the CEO and Chief Architect of Hyperreal® Inc., a firm dedicated to engineering the worlds most recognized digital humans called HyperModels™. Hyperreal has created Madison Beer's HyperModel and digital performance for Sony's Immersive Music Virtual Concert. ​ Remington is an acclaimed cinematic director for best selling video games and virtual reality. Franchise titles include CALL OF DUTY, JUST CAUSE, ASSASSINS CREED, NEED FOR SPEED, RESISTANCE, and SPIDER-MAN. Clients include Ubisoft, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Activision, OF3D and Electronics Arts. Recognition includes The Visual Effects Society's "Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game".    His achievements in motion pictures are extensive, including supervisory digital production under filmmakers Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Robert Zemeckis, Bryan Singer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Zack Snyder and others.

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    30 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 07 – ELIZABETH GRULLÓN - MOTION CAPTURE AND MEDITATION
    Elizabeth Grullón is an artist with many talents - she is a director, a voice over artist, motion capture performer, practitioner of meditation, and entrepreneur. From working on animated series on Cartoon Network and Disney, to voicing the Beyoncé Formation world tour, to performing full motion capture in Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Elizabeth brings her wisdom and creativity to all of her work. Elizabeth spent her childhood in Queens, Orlando, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. Her first performance capture job was Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, working with Tom Keegan, with many more projects on the way.

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    32 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 06 – ACE RUELE - CREATURE-BIONICS

    Inspired by actors such as Jim Carrey, Wesley Snipes and Andy Serkis, Ace Ruele is known for his animated and physically demanding acting abilities. From a young age, Ace was interested in becoming an action actor, but when he discovered motion capture and creature acting whilst working on the film, The Legend of Tarzan (2016), he instantly knew this was exactly what he wanted to do.

    Fast forward to 2020, Ace is one of the UK’s leading actors within the motion capture/VFX industry. His ability to embody unorthodox creature movement and voice, has gained the respect of many who work within the industry around the world. 

    A majority of Ace’s work has been in films and video games, including titles such as, The Legend of Tarzan (film), Planets of The Apes VR (video game), The Inpatient (video game), Daymare 1988 (video game) and his biggest project to date, Marvel – Eternals (film). Ace’s latest venture is through his company called, Creature-Bionics. The company’s purpose is to develop performance rigs that enhance an actor’s performance as a creature and create better data for motion capture and VFX reference. For a production, it will give the director better visuals to work with and provide the actors with better material to work off.

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    30 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 05 - CAROLINE LIVINGSTONE - Producing and Directing
    Caroline lives in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. She began her career as an actor and transitioned to directing. Caroline works at Humanoid Studios. When this episode was recorded she was with Bioware, for whom she worked for 13 years. Anthem (2019) was Bioware’s first venture in performance capture.   As Producer and Director at Bioware, Caroline covered all aspects of performance in storytelling from casting to voice over to performance capture. For emotional and compelling content our in-game characters rely on real actors giving solid performances to create the most dynamic, realistic experiences possible. This creates the immersive environment for our players that BioWare is best known for. Caroline’s credits include Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Anthem.

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    27 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 04 - MICHAEL ANTONAKOS: Assassins Creed and Batman

    Michael Antonakos has been performing since the age of seven. He spent most of his youth growing up in the Rocky Mountain's learning theatre in the Banff, Alberta and  performing with the Rocky Mountain Shakespeare Company.  

    After leaving the University for theatre he moved to Vancouver B.C, where he began focusing on film and television, his career path shifted when he landed his first video game audition with Lord Of the Rings: The Third Age, where he fell in love with motion capture and voice performance. Because of his physical abilities to transform into other people/creatures and create new unrecognizable voices he became well known performance capture actor in the video game world. Sleeping Dogs, Max Steel (Series), Dead Rising 4, Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and recently stared as Alexios in Ubisoft's most successful Assassin's Creed Video Game, Assassins Creed Odyssey.

    He has been in multiple t.v series and films: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Warcraft, Arrow, Supernatural, The Good Doctor, The Crossing Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld, The Sandlot 2 & 3, Pants on Fire, Prison Break, iZombie, When Calls the Heart, Motive, Falling Skies, Continuum, Fringe, Alcatraz, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical.

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    30 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 03 – EMILY SCHWEBER: Casting actors for performance capture
    Emily began her career working on commercials and movies in the Bay Area.  After moving to Los Angeles, she worked with the late Mali Finn on such films as Terminator 2, True Lies, and Titanic  for James Cameron, L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys  for Curtis Hanson, The Matrix  for the Wachowskis, and The Client, A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, and Tigerland  for Joel Schumacher. Her video game credits include Star Wars: Battlefront II, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus  and The New Order, Battlefield 1, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Killzone: Shadow Fall, and most recently Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Need for Speed: Heat and Star Wars: Squadrons. 

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    27 min
  • Season 4 – Episode 02 – TERRY NOTARY: Creature Performance & Movement choreography

    Victoria chats to the incredible performer and movement choreographer Terry Notary who has contributed so much to the performance capture industry. 

    Notary's first career was as a performer with Cirque du Soleil. His first job as a stunt movement coach was on Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Director Ron Howard was hiring Cirque gymnasts for the film, and after sufficiently impressing Howard, Terry was offered the job of teaching all the actors how to move. Notary followed this new career path to Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, for which he prepared by studying ape movements at the LA County Zoo. Terry's first motion capture film was Avatar, where he was the movement coach for the Na'vi.

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    34 min
  • Season 4 - Episode 01 - ELLA BALINSKA - Forspoken
    Victoria chats with Ella about the differences between acting in tv/film and in the volume. Ella Balinska, known for her leading roles in Charlie's Angels (2019), Run Sweetheart Run (2020) and Resident Evil (2022), and THIS YEAR will star as the protagonist Frey Holland in Square Enix’s brand new IP Forspoken for PlayStation 5! @squareenix @playstation     Ella was born in London, UK and lives in Los Angeles, USA. Ella trained and graduated at the Guildford School of Acting with honors, and acquired her combat skills at the Academy of Performance Combat.

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    36 min
  • Season 3 – Episode 08 – TOM KEEGAN: Directing Star Wars, Wolfenstein and more
    Victoria sits down with highly acclaimed and credited performance director and storyteller, Tom Keegan. His work includes AAA franchises, including Battlefield, Star Wars, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Need for Speed, Mirror’s Edge, VR titles Archangel and Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners. He received a BAFTA nomination for his work on Wolfenstein: The New Colossus and his products have won multiple BAFTAs, Game Awards, and the Golden Joystick.

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    35 min
  • Season 3 – Episode 07 – SAMANTHA DODD: Talent Agent and Actor's Advocate for Performance Capture

    Samantha is Victoria’s UK agent! You don’t want to miss this incredible conversation with these two powerhouse women of the performance capture industry. It is educational, insightful and ultimately inspiring. Samantha Dodd has been working in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. During this time, she has been involved with many productions that have won both BAFTAS, EMMYS and Royal Television Society awards. She runs top London agency, Carey Dodd Associates as well as Carey Dodd Voices. 

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    32 min

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Ever wondered about how they transformed Andy Serkis into Gollum or King Kong? Or how they put such gut-wrenching performances into games like The Last of Us? 


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