Vicon works with Audiomotion on World War Z

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OMG PLC

03 July 2013

 



3 July 2013

OMG plc

("OMG" or the "Group")

OMG's Vicon works with Audiomotion Studios on World War Z

- WWZ, starring Brad Pitt, breaks Motion Capture records -

- Europe's Largest Ever Motion Capture Volume created for the recently released blockbuster -

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, announces that its Vicon division worked with Audiomotion Studios ("Audiomotion"), the leading motion capture provider for movies and videogames, on the recently released film, World War Z ("WWZ"), from Paramount Pictures.

Audiomotion deployed 160 of its Vicon cameras on location at Shepperton Studios, creating one of the world's largest ever motion capture stages. Certainly the largest ever created in Europe. The 50' x 85' volume was used to capture hundreds of stunt moves which were later transformed by The Moving Picture Company ("MPC") and Cinesite into thousands of zombies.

Starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster, "World War Z" revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself.  The film also stars Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale.

Mick Morris, Managing Director at Audiomotion Studios states: "Once the vast motion capture volume was in place, we set to work capturing the performance of the stunt crew, meeting the creative vision of the fluidity of the infected hordes. Filling streets and alleys, swarming over vehicles, climbing and falling like a mass of insects. We then delivered the assets to MPC and Cinesite for the teams there to work their magic. The final shots look absolutely amazing."

VFX Producer Robin Saxen said, "World War Z required us to have humans move in an unnatural way. Mick and his team at Audiomotion helped us to compile a series of actions that allowed us to create that signature Z motion. It was a real pleasure to work with Audiomotion on World War Z."

Adam Davis, Global Head of Crowd Simulation at MPC states: "Audiomotion was involved right from the beginning of the show, from early pre-production motion studies and test shoots, through to organizing the main shoot which was the largest capture volume that we have ever worked in.

For some of the moves on World War Z, we needed so much space that we ended up hiring out one of the largest stages at Shepperton Studios, where Audiomotion set up its systems using a significant number of cameras and creating a very impressive volume. The shoot itself turned out to be just as successful as we had hoped for, the volume was large enough to encompass the moves we needed, and the shoot went as smoothly as many of the sessions we have executed in the past."

Audiomotion's work on World War Z is the latest in a long line of world class motion capture for major movie projects, including the Narnia series, the Titans series, Harry Potter series, Golden Compass, The Watchmen and Gladiator. Audiomotion's ongoing work in pushing the art of motion capture forward is helping to maintain the UK as an essential hub in the special effects industry.

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Notes to Editors

About OMG plc

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

The Group's technology is used to capture the movements of actors (for the movie industry), sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), children with cerebral palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries.  The technology is also used for recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them; or even for providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diverse offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through four operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, Yotta, our highways surveying business and OMG Life, a new consumer subsidiary.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In highways, clients include Highways Agency, East Sussex, Lancashire, Transport for London, Cheshire East and West as well as many others.

For more information about OMG, visit www.omgplc.com.

About Audiomotion Studios

Audiomotion is Europe's leading motion capture service provider. It is a multi-award winning studio, specialising in the provision of motion capture services to the Game Development, Film and Television industries for almost 15 years. Projects for clients include 2K, Activision, Bethesda, EA, Capcom, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, Rockstar Games and SCEE, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Warner Bros and many others.

With a state-of-the-art facility in Oxford, UK, Audiomotion provides HD-resolution capture data for every aspect of any physical performance. The company prides itself on continually developing and refining its techniques and technology to provide a true "state of the art" service, and is looking to expand its facility in 2013, including opening a new, much larger capture volume that will allow for a huge increase in the scale and sophistication of capture sessions.

For more information, please visit: http://www.audiomotion.com

 

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