Quantic Dream, developer behind the critically acclaimed Fahrenheit, has announced the company has invested in the latest motion capture technology from Vicon for use in its upcoming, as-of-yet-unnamed PlayStation 3 project.
The company is currently in the process of working on four months worth of motion capture for the project, which was first announced back in July of this year.
Guillaume de Fondaumière, Co-CEO of Quantic Dream commented, "Our objective is to make this media a mainstream entertainment form with high creative expectations.”
"To do so, we have invented our own format called ‘interactive cinema’ in which realistic, believable characters play a central role. To us, the only way to reach the level of quality we were targeting for the animation of our characters was to use Vicon motion capture.”
In addition, the firm also confirmed that it is hiring out the new mo-cap studio to other development teams.
"Demand has been immediate and we have actually already started to rent the system to high-profile video game and advertising clients. Our new studio is fully installed and is functioning almost every day either for complex full body or facial captures," concluded Fondaumiere.