performance capture

[ per-fawr-muhns kap-cher ]

noun

1. a data collection technique in which the detailed movements and facial expressions of live actors are tracked, recorded, and rendered to create animations, as for computer-generated characters in a motion picture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of performance capture¹

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

In a 3D performance capture and an actual 3D video, you’ll be able to see a lot of the nuances of how the tongue moves, and the teeth move, and you’ll be able to preserve the same dances as well as artifacts, stories, all sorts of things.

From Time

You do that to a certain extent with performance capture by the way you calibrate the model of Caesar—or the rig, as we call it.

From The Daily Beast