Motion Capture Company MocapLab to Double in Size

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Martin Dale ContributorMocapLab – one of Europe’s biggest motion capture (mocap) facilities – is implementing a major expansion plan to meet increased demand from film and TV projects, commercials, videogames and immersive media.Founded by Rémi Brun in 2007, MocapLab offers state-of-the-art motion capture services, from its facilities based on the outskirts of Paris.

It has a strong R&D department and has been recognized by the French government as a research entity. It is a member of several state-supported innovative business groups, such as CAP DIGITAL, OSEO, Agoranov and Paris Innovation.The company recently received a grant from France’s CNC to reinforce its offer, as part of the CNC’s €10 million ($11.4 million) technological modernization scheme launched in 2021.

At PIDS Enghien, an event that runs Jan. 26-29, MocapLab will take part in a demonstration of extreme mocap in which it will show a mocap shot for an ambitious bicycle jump in a large venue in Annecy, produced for Ubisoft, and a motion capture recording of horse-riding, a tennis match between Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils, and Sean Connery in the Bahamas.“We started doing mocap 28 years ago,” explains Brun. “We were the first in Europe at the time.

Mocap is getting bigger. We want to use this new influx of financing, to move from being an experimental studio to an industrial studio.”The current expansion plan includes increasing the studio space, purchasing more cameras and increasing staff and R&D activities.