marc cieslak has been hanging out at andy serkis‘ imaginarium studios to see what they‘ve been cookinguch so that back in 2011, he founded the imaginarium studios in london, a company dedicated to performance capture for movies, tv, and games. using 60 or so cameras, performance capture suits with tracking markers, and even software created for games, human actors can be quickly turned into out—of—this—world computer—generated characters. right here we have a brilliant explanation of what is actually going on on the stage. in the two corners there, we can see oui’ actors who are performing on the stage, but on this screen right here, this is what the motion capture or performance capture cameras are actually seeing. and then over here, in real time, we can see those performances as cg characters, and they are using the unreal engine to help create those characters, which is a bit of videogames technology. using their performance capture know—how, the imaginarium has teamed up with florida—based super—secretive augmented reality outfit magic leap to show off its ar tech. they have done