We spoke with Chris Brown, Global Visual Effects Supervisor and Umberto Lazzari, Software Engineer at Sony Pictures Animation, about motion capture with mocopi®.
Highly efficient workflow that can be achieved at your desk
Instead of the large equipment required for motion capture, mocopi enables flexible use of motion data at the production site.
Chris Brown：Animators can have these devices right at their desk, quickly put them on, and capture their movements right away. It's incredibly cost-effective. They can start using for testing animation for previsualization and even for reference. I find that you can iterate very quickly. Animators can dive right in and start capturing motion.
Unleashing creativity in production through mocopi.
In addition, Umberto Lazzari emphasizes the technical advantages.
Umberto Lazzari：What I like is that you don't need a dedicated stage, and you don't have to wear like a custom suit.
You can just put your strap on attach your sensor, calibration takes a few seconds, and after that you can start sending your data to drive your character in the animation software. And this allows to do more previsualization early in the stage so that we can address any issue before it actually moves into production.
XYN™'s motion capture technology has the potential to streamline the animation production workflow and further unleash the creativity of its creators. mocopi, mocopi professional mode and XYN Motion Studio will bring new possibilities to the animation industry in the future.
In addition, XYN launched "XYN Motion Studio", an integrated application leveraging the motion capture tool "mocopi" on March 25, 2025. Supporting capture, timeline editing, and utilization, XYN Motion Studio streamlines the production process by making motion production easier.
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