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March 1-4, 2027
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

Performance Capture Roundtable: Performance and Direction

Pasha Sol  (Motion Capture Supervisor, Electronic Arts)
Ander Bergstrom  (Market Director - Americas, Qualisys NA)
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Track: Narrative & Performance, Visual Art
Audience Level: All
Format: Roundtable
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All

This Performance Capture roundtable is a forum to ask questions, compare philosophies, and discuss know-hows in PCap production. Come and share your proudest moments and pain points with your PCap peers. Find out what everyone has been doing to solve common and unique challenges on the production floor.


Day 1: Tech and Process
Day 2: Performance and Direction


Examples of topics to be discussed are:
1. The use of emergent technologies and the future of Performance Capture pipelines. Success and failure stories, predictions, opinions.
2. Markerless solutions. Use cases, comparisons to optical and inertial. Where do they shine, where do they lack?
3. How does one break into the Performance Capture world either as a tech, a creative, or a performer?

Takeaway

Attendees will share their experiences, challenges, and successes with Performance Capture. They can expect to leave with a clear picture of today's PCap world, hear philosophies of peers navigating it, and an introduction to the community of colleagues across the globe.

Intended Audience

This roundtable is intended for Performance Capture technicians, directors, technical artists and performers. Although the topics of the roundtable will focus primarily on the production floor it can be useful to broader attendees such as animators, game designers, producers, etc.