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“Winner Takes All” is an award-winning, CG animated trailer promoting the release of Morefun Studios’ game, Arena Breakout.

Directed by Morten Vinther, the cinematics were created by The Mill.

The trailer use multiple perspectives to tell a story which is both gritty and thrilling, depicting a dark warzone that contains competing special forces units. The Mill used our specialist facial capture service and technology to obtain highly engaging acting performances to drive the facial animation.

First, HMC systems were used to capture the facial performances of the actors simultaneously with body mocap on Rouge Mocap's LA stage. Then, the actors repeated their facial and voice performances in Rouge’s ADR booth while they were captured in even higher fidelity using our seated DI4D PRO system.

The resulting facial animation was stunningly effective.

Watch the full trailer here: https://di4d.com/project/arena-breakout/

Work - Arena Breakout - DI4D DI4D helped The Mill deliver realistic facial animation for Arena Breakout's cinematic trailer.

We're pleased to announce our collaboration with Sledgehammer Games on the latest Call of Duty game.

A direct sequel to , Modern Warfare 3 sees Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.

Building on our work for the two previous Modern Warfare titles, our team worked with the studio on facial capture and animation for the in-game characters and cinematics.

https://di4d.com/project/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-iii/

Work - Call of Duty Modern Warfare III - DI4D We're pleased to announce our collaboration with Sledgehammer Games on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Check out the latest trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's campaign mode ⬇

We can't wait for the full release on November 10th.

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to Love, Death & Robots – Beyond the Aquila Rift.

World-leading animation and VFX studio, Unit Image, created the 2019 animated episode.

It’s an emotionally charged story focusing on the relationship between the two main characters, Greta and Thom, played by Madeleine Knight and Henry Douthwaite.

To achieve a high degree of realism, Unit Image created digitals double of Madelaine and Henry.

The piece features several close-up shots of Greta, exemplifying some of the most intense emotions expressed by a computer generated character.

We provided 4D facial performance capture and processing services, supervising the HMC shoot at Audiomotion Studios, where we captured the performances of the lead characters.

Our team delivered detailed facial animation for the close-up shots of the main character, Greta.

From acting to in-game.

Images like this are great at demonstrating the performance-driven approach to character creation.

Below is an example from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

What's clear, is the exact likeness between the final render and the picture of the real actress performing on stage. Of course, the final video will also reveal the likeness to her performance too.

Together, this 'digital double' approach produces a player experience with heightened authenticity and immersion.

Key moments in the story will become real because the acting itself is real. Just like a theatrical or cinematic production.

It's the power of current-gen video game engines that helps make visuals like this possible. And when they're paired with high-fidelity performance capture technology, the results are astounding.

You can find out more about MW2's process in this case study: https://di4d.com/project/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-ii/

Bringing Rachael to life in Blade Runner 2049.

To match the age and appearance of the actress, Sean Young – who played Rachael in the original Blade Runner (1982) – MPC needed to create and animate a photo-realistic CG version of the actress.

The studio harnessed the power of our DI4D PRO system to track every minute detail of the facial movements of both Sean Young and stand-in actress, Loren Peta.

For a 2017 project, the end result set a high bar for realistic facial animation in VFX – a standard we've continued to match and exceed since.

We wrote a detailed case study which on the project which you can read here: https://di4d.com/project/blade-runner-2049/