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8 ways how NOT to do a motion capture session

Whenever we watch a making-of footage from film sets or games and hear „motion capture,” it may bring an idea of just a simple green background, some funny outfits and many cameras. Nothing could be more wrong! To conduct a successful motion capture session and produce impressive animation, you need to involve a highly-skilled team…

Bones workflow for Previs

The first very key stage is the preparation of a storyboard. It is where the story for the action is established and approved by the Director and Producer of the project. After the storyboard, a Mocap session is recorded on our big stage at Bones. This is where we record any and all characters we…

How We Started Producing Data No One Asked For. At least then…

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future": How We Started Producing Data No One Asked For. At least then… When it comes to ML, when you start as early as Bones did, it's hard to learn from mistakes other than your own. Niels Bohr's famous observation about the difficulty of prediction has never been…