Audiomotion drive the movements on 10,000 BC

16 April 2008, Oxford, UK: Audiomotion, the multi-award winning motion capture studio, today announced its involvement in the making of 10,000 BC. Over the course of several weeks Audiomotion set up and recorded all of the motion capture elements of the movie. They used 60 out their 100 strong suite of state of the art Vicon MX40+ cameras.

10,000 BC was directed by Roland Emmerich and is set in the prehistoric era. It was released in the UK on 14 March 2008, and follows the journey of a young mammoth hunter through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

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Barry Hemsley, VFX producer at Warner Bros said: "On 10,000 BC we needed to build a comprehensive library of motion capture to drive the movements of an array of synthespians - from a single hunter to an army of thousands.”

The film’s Giza sequences needed populating with up to 50,000 slaves and soldiers. Out of the 50 Giza shots, over 90% of them have a CG environment, and six are entirely CG. MPC and Double Negative created thousands of digital characters from the hundreds of variations of each and every move, which were captured by the prestigious Vicon MX40+ cameras.

Emmerich required mammoth blocks 3 meters high on a 15 x 30 meter ramp. These had to be constructed by Audiomotion to specification. Mick Morris Audiomotion MD said. “This was definitely the largest location shoot we have executed to date. Sorting those massive props was a challenge in itself. It was great that Roland Emmerich was there to direct personally, it’s great to see a director take a personal interest in the motion capture elements of a movie. The Vicon hardware and software, as always never let us down throughout the shooting of this movie.”

Hemsley continued: “Audiomotion made sure we got everything we needed in a matter of days, combining an ingenious mobile set-up, with creative management and sheer hard work. I look forward to working with them again."

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