Halo Wars Motion Capture Images

Video games use motion capture for football, baseball and basketball players or the combat moves of a martial artist as well as in action games. Halo Wars is the latest game to use motion capture to create a more realistic looking game, and the guys over at Ensemble Studios have released a number of motion capture images from the Halo Wars development phase.

Real time image showing movements inside a Warthog

Character movements were being recorded in this shot

Actors being instructed what to do next

To become an elite you must first wear these pogo sticks

Another actor strutting his stuff

Movies use motion capture for CG effects, in some cases replacing traditional cell animation, and for completely computer-generated creatures, such as Gollum, Jar-Jar Binks, and King Kong.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality require real time input of the user’s position and interaction with their environment, requiring more precision and speed than older motion capture systems could provide. Noise and errors from low resolution or low speed systems, and overly smoothed and filtered data with long latency contribute to “simulator sickness” where the lag and mismatch between visual and vistibular cues and computer generated images caused nausea and discomfort.