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MOTEK to provide multimedia content for ORCA INTERACTIVE at IBC September 2005.

For more information see:
www.orcainteractive.com

Motek at number 10 of Intermediairs top-20 of the most innovative it-companies.

For more information see:
http://www.intermediair.nl/index.shtml?http://www2.intermediair.nl/artikel.jsp?id=78394 (Dutch)

Second season TV series Cafe de Wereld will start in september 2004.

MOTEK already realized the first season for a daily TV series "Cafe the Wereld" for the dutch production company
Id tV, and now continues with a second season.

The series is set in a 3D cafe populated by 3D dutch Celebrities, politicians and famous faces. Featuring the dutch prime minister, the dutch queen and a variety of current and less current scope of characters. The first season show was on air monday to Friday during the VARA late night show "VARA laat" For this show, a unique real-time pipeline was set up, enabling yesterday's news to be on air today.
READ MORE about "Cafe de Wereld"
All screened episodes can be viewed at laat.vara.nl   (click on "Cafe De Wereld")

TV series Cafe de Wereld nominated for "Rose d' Or"

Cafe de Wereld has been nominated for the Rose d' Or (Golden Rose), the coverted european TV award.
Cafe de Wereld is one of only 18 programs nominated in the Comedy category .


The Ambassador of Israel visits Motek studio in Amsterdam.
Following a visit to the VR & Human performance lab at the University of Twente, Israel's ambassador to The Netherlands, Mr. Eitan Margalit accompanied by Mr. Arnon Yossef the minister-counselor of Economic and Commercial Affairs for the Netherlands and Denmark visited MOTEK studio in Amsterdam. The visit included a demonstration of CAREN, MOTEK's medical project, a demonstration of realtime virtual characters and of techniques used for the creation an implementations of virtual characters in simulation environments

Dinosaur Riding, MOTEK takes motion capture another step forward
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May 2003 Amsterdam - MOTEK got a request for capturing a human riding on a dinosaur. Capturing dinosaurs is not new for the entertainment industry and the same applies for humans motion capture. We decided to try a combined approach for enhanced realism. The first step was to motion capture a performer playing the role of a dinosaur. The motion capture data from the dino's hips was used to control a 6-degrees-of-freedom motion platform, which served as a dino simulator. A second performer sat on the motion platform, her body motions and compensation of balance were captured while the platform behaved as the dinosaur she was riding. The result was a realistic behavior of a human riding on a dinosaur. This multi layer motion capture technique can be applied in many ways and for many other simulation settings. For example, instead of recording a human playing the role of a dinosaur, we can add the motion of any external environment or creature directly to the motion platform, resulting in realistic combined motions.
To be or not... Shakespeare speaks again...

MOTEK Studios and U. K. based Image-Metrics have completed an animated pilot production of Shakespeare’s Sonnets using “RealFace”a new, real time facial motion capture system.....full story

Opening of the Human performance lab at the University of Twente.

For the University of Twente MOTEK created a virtual copy of the Rector Magnificus F. A. van Vught to celebrate the installation of a new system called the "Human Performance Virtual Reality Lab". The rector Magnificus officially opened the lab together with his virtual alter ego during a live real-time motion capture session. Read more about it in the press release. (Dutch)

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StockMovestm Now Available - FOR FREE!

Stockmoves is a Web-based library of stock motions for use by graphics artists,
game developers and animators in motion capture projects.
MOTEK also offers a state-of-the-art motion capture studio in Amsterdam,
web-based motion capture solutions, professional consultation and production services.


MOTEK Completed a 16 Characters, Motion Capture Project for
the X-Box Racing Game "QUANTUM REDSHIFT"

For more info see: http://www.quantumredshift.com

April 2002, Amsterdam - MOTEK completed successfully a motion capture production ordered by British
Curly Monsters. The project was a racing X-Box game and included 16 characters.
Eight females and eight males...full story

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