Quantic Dream is Selling Motion Capture Libraries to Developers

Quantic Dream has
announced that it is selling its motion capture data (as seen in Heavy
Rain) in library packages to other game developers.


The offering will be what Quantic Dream calls "the industry's first
high-end, off-the-shelf solution for real-time 3D character animation."


Considering they spent nearly a year doing motion capture work on
Heavy Rain, it only makes sense to recovering the costs of the enormous
project.


To quote: Motion Kit Collection Vol 1 will feature 2 motion kit
libraries (one for both sexes), each comprising 84 generic motion
animations, which totals 2 X 7 linear minutes of animation data.

With each humanoid animation captured using Quantic’s 28-camera
Vicon MX-F40 system, the motions can be used for building motion kits
for both playable real-time characters and NPCs. Quantic has said this
process will “reduce time and budget outlays for prototyping, pre and
full productions.”