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PERFORMANCE CAPTURE / BERLIN
Built around the way your game moves
A convincing game character needs more than a recognisable silhouette. Players notice the weight of a landing, the rhythm of a turn and the hesitation before a line of dialogue. Motion capture gives your animation team a performance-based foundation for those details, whether you are building playable movement, a cinematic sequence or a library of character actions.
Mimic Productions combines body and facial capture with motion processing and animation services. Our Berlin team works across character creation, rigging and animation, helping connect the capture session to the digital character that will use the data. Optical and inertial capture options support different production requirements, while facial capture can record the expression and timing that make close-up performances convincing.
Production challenges
A clearer path from capture to character
A useful performance needs a clear production brief. We plan capture and animation around your character assets, movement requirements and delivery scope.
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Movement lacks weight
Capture an actor’s balance and timing as the foundation for believable movement. Refine the recorded performance around your character’s proportions and the visual style of your game.
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Delivery needs clarity
Agree on skeletons, file formats and the responsibilities for engine import before recording. Early technical discussion helps reduce surprises when animation reaches your team.
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Cleanup needs planning
Mimic offers motion solving, editing and animation cleanup. Define the work and review stages in the quote so capture and post-production follow one agreed scope.
What your studio gets
Capture services shaped around your production
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Body performance
Optical and inertial options for physical action, character movement and coordinated performances.
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Facial expression
Head-mounted facial capture for the timing and expression behind convincing character-led scenes.
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Motion libraries
Plan looped animations and action libraries around your game’s movement requirements.
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Defined deliverables
Specify capture, cleanup, file formats and review rounds before the session begins.
Capabilities & deliverables
One team across capture and animation
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- Optical body motion capture
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- Head-mounted facial capture
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- Inertial capture options
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- Motion solving and editing
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- Animation cleanup
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- Looped animations and motion libraries
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- Character rigging support
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- Delivery in agreed formats including FBX
From performance to character
Make the capture useful to your animation team
A recorded take is the beginning of a character animation workflow.
Prepare an action list with references for timing, contact points and character proportions. Identify continuous performances, repeated cycles and facial requirements separately, then agree how takes will be reviewed and which cleanup or animation work belongs in the delivery scope. For games, distinguish playable actions, cinematic sequences and promotional assets, because each is reviewed in a different context.
Explore our Motion Capture services and Gaming production.
Related production services: 3D Animation for Gaming · Character Rigging for Gaming · Motion Capture for XR.
How we work
From brief to animation delivery
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Plan the brief
Share your animation list, character assets, target engine and deadline. Agree the capture approach and delivery scope.
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Capture the performance
Record planned actions with performer direction and reference video, reviewing takes against the creative brief.
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Solve and refine
Process the recorded movement and complete the agreed animation cleanup and character adaptation.
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Review and deliver
Review the animation and deliver in agreed formats. Confirm retargeting and engine implementation responsibilities.
Frequently asked questions
Questions studios ask us
Q.1 What does motion capture for a game cost?
Cost depends on the number and complexity of actions, performers, recording time and post-production work. Send an animation list, delivery deadline and available character assets so we can scope the work and prepare a project-specific quote.
Q.2 Can you deliver animation for Unreal Engine or Unity?
Mimic’s gaming work supports major game-engine workflows, and motion data can be delivered in formats such as FBX. Your skeleton, rig and import requirements should be reviewed first. Exported animation still needs appropriate retargeting and testing within your game.
Q.3 Can body and facial performances be captured together?
Yes. Mimic’s head-mounted facial cameras can be used alongside optical body capture. Whether simultaneous capture is appropriate depends on the scene, performer interactions and the facial animation workflow you plan to use.
Q.4 Do you provide animation cleanup?
Yes. Mimic offers motion solving, editing and animation services as well as capture. The quote should specify the required cleanup, character adaptation and review rounds, so the final deliverables match your team’s expectations.
Q.5 Can you create loops and movement libraries?
Mimic’s gaming services include looped animations and motion libraries. Provide the action list and requirements for transitions, root movement and character behaviour. These details help determine which actions should be recorded and how they should be processed.
Q.6 What do you need to quote motion capture for game production?
Send an action list, performer needs and the required animation handoff, together with the deadline and any existing assets. Specify whether the asset is for gameplay, a cinematic or both, and identify the target engine and hardware. The work involved depends on performer count, capture time, facial recording and the amount of animation cleanup. Confirm the deliverables and review stages in the proposal so the quote covers the work your team actually needs.
Frequently asked questions
Questions studios ask us
For game production, motion capture scope depends on performer count, capture time, facial recording and the amount of animation cleanup. Send an action list, performer needs and the required animation handoff. Specify whether the asset is for gameplay, a cinematic or both, and identify the target engine and hardware.