Motion capture
Motion Capture is a process where an actor wears a special suit lined with sensors. The sensors provide the actor's motion data to the computer which is then applied to a computer-animated character.

It has been used to populate the deck of a computer generated ship (titanic) or to bring a creature to life (Gollum in Lord of the Rings).

Dave west
visual effects and compositing Instructor

Born in the woods and raised by wolves, Dave started his career in Hawaii over 15 years ago. He his focused on computer animation, producing national commercial spots. Eventually he moved to Southern California for a character animation position at Foundation Imaging working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and more. He then became Foundation's Motion Capture Supervisor. He and his crew worked on Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Max Steel and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future.