About Giant Studios

Founded in 1999, Giant Studios is the preeminent motion capture facility in the entertainment industry, offering filmmakers capabilities that simply cant be done anywhere else.

Giant Studios has provided motion capture for many noticeable fantastic motion pictures: from Gollum in “Lord of the Rings,” to the Na’vi in “Avatar.”

We started the company out of Atlanta, GA, where we still have our home office and R&D.  Our state-of-the art studio facilities are in Los Angeles and we have ‘To Go’ capabilities around the world.

Giant is the recognized leader in motion capture and virtual environments for film, television or commercials.

A Giant Difference in Software

Giant's proprietary technology is based upon advanced tracking and analysis algorithms, with a sophisticated suite of software tools that enable 3D professionals to create the highest quality character animation easier and faster than ever before.

Giant's mocap technology is comprised of hundreds of thousands of lines of code that define the human skeleton with scientifically accurate detail: bone length, density, connectivity, and rotation properties. All of which can be modified to mirror the appropriate skeletal set-up for any mechanism that needs to be animated.

Our performance capture approach differs greatly from competing hardware-driven solutions that use powerful digital cameras to capture a point cloud of marker data in 3D space, resulting in animation resembling puppetry.

With Giant Studios’ technology the result is organic and accurate character animation.  Due to the scientific accurate detail within our software, Giant defines specific bone lengths and motion parameters of each character skeleton being captured.

Giant Studios more faithfully captures the unique motion of each performer.

Benefits to Filmmakers Real Time & Multiple Characters

Because Giant's software is robust enough to enable capture and processing of the motion data of multiple characters in one simultaneous process, the director can see in real time the live performance on the animated character, in a digital version of the set, with interactive camera and lighting controls. The director and producer walk away from the capture session knowing that they have the performances and the shots they need.

Facilities

Giant Studios provides motion capture with a state-of-the-art motion capture volume in Los Angeles. Giant also has an inventory of multiple camera systems that can be installed on location anywhere in the world. Giant's technology can also be configured to be transparent in the live film production process, enabling live capture, on set, without interfering with the film production. read more...