How to Use motion capture in a Sentence

motion capture

noun
  • The film is a mix of hand animation and some motion capture.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Dre donned a motion capture suit so that his in-game alter-ego would be informed by real-life habits.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Everything else was a motion capture suit that was painted vine-y with purple dots all over.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, there’s a machine that’s built up around motion capture that can be a little alienating at times.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The scene was shot over two days with Fleming, 17, and a bunch of dancers wearing motion capture suits.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 May 2024
  • The creator even enlisted his wife to help him motion capture the movements of the assistant.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
  • That process normally would be captured in large part during live shoots using motion capture suits on a studio sound stage.
    — Mike Hume, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • One element of the show that helped inform her performance was, oddly enough, a motion capture suit.
    — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • So, to catch this in action, the research team fitted each musician with motion capture devices.
    — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Actors in the video game sphere often don't just lend their voices to characters but do full performances in motion capture.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 25 July 2024
  • Ruffalo wrote alongside the video, which features him in a motion capture suit and shows both the actor and Hemsworth with their phones out.
    — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
  • Sheridan recalls spending eight weeks in motion capture suits on the set of the latter movie, which then required dozens of artists to process all of the data.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 July 2023
  • That someone was the contestant, using motion capture to follow their exact moves.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The voice artists brought these characters to life in postproduction, but the motion capture actors are the ones who gave the robots their soul.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Overall, the motion capture data showed a notable increase in range of motion around the shoulders, wrists, and elbows.
    — Mack Degeurin Aug 21, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In this case, the system learns from motion capture of the movements performed by people dribbling basketballs.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Then, for Junior, Smith would go into motion capture on a sound stage and act against the video of his Henry scenes.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And a pioneer in regard to motion capture or performance capture.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2026
  • When creating a video game there are several layers to the process, from motion capture to voiceover acting to imagining the world in your mind’s eye.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Benedict Cumberbatch plays Smaug through the magic of motion capture.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Joining the franchise, Owen Teague will provide the voice and motion capture of Cornelius.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But there are 175 of them — which meant the film needed a prodigious ensemble of motion capture performers.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The motion capture studio allows for expression tracking, which can come in handy when a player squints during a hard pitch or grunts while diving for a ball in the field.
    — Popular Science, 19 Apr. 2020
  • She’s covered from head to toe in shiny silver and flies around on a cosmic surfboard, which means Garner had to do motion capture for the first time in her career.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Sakamoto was wearing lentil-sized motion capture markers on his face, with almost 20 of them strategically taped to the back of his hands.
    — WIRED, 28 June 2023
  • Both Notary and Vaughn-Lawlor also performed the motion capture for their characters on set.
    — Robert Mitchell, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • As the voice and motion capture behind the film's Magic Mirror, Page will determine who's the fairest of them all.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That allow the series makers to push the ultra-realism of dance scenes performed in motion capture by Paris Opera dancers.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
  • In the video clip, Bailey can be seen on a break from filming, covered in small black dots that are used to help with motion capture in post production for an effects-heavy film.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • Through the motion capture technology, [the avatars] are mimicking the movement and the expression of the performer.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021

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