Join the movement(Manifesto)
Motion capture is a tool to pass on, document, invent and imagine the future. MoCap Week opens it up to everyone, right here, in Martinique.
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A series of moments dedicated to motion capture. Sometimes an afternoon, sometimes a day, sometimes several days. Sometimes a whole week, or two.
The length changes, but the spirit stays the same: a living, open space where movement, technology and creation meet.
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Everyone.
Professionals, students, artists, technicians, writers, dancers, actors, animators, researchers, the curious.
If you love gesture, images, video games, live performance, dance, VFX, or just learning something new: the door is open.
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Like taking a breath.
We discover. We try. We learn. We create.
Depending on the format, you take part in workshops, demos, performances, technical explorations, acting, dance, or tests with Unreal Engine, Xsens, Manus and much more. The mood is simple, joyful, collective.
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To pass on, document, invent and imagine the future.
MoCap Week makes these technologies accessible, strengthens creative independence in Martinique and the Caribbean, and connects our practices to international networks of movement, film, animation and the performing arts.
We need it to learn together and to share what we know.
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ANISOTROPIE, Arts, Sciences & Technologies in the Caribbean.
It is led by Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud, art director, and extends our outreach and training work, our artistic and technological residencies, and our drive to build bridges between territories, generations, practices and histories.
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It moves, it breathes, it creates.
Each edition invents its own rhythm. Expect guided exercises, capture sessions, physical expression, acting, technique, writing, pipelines, live tests, discussions, laughter, experiments and the occasional surprise.
(In motion)
(What is motion capture?)
Motion capture records movement. The way a person walks, jumps, dances, acts, stands… transferred onto an avatar, a digital character or a virtual object.
Performance capture goes further. It captures the whole performance: that is what makes the digital feel alive, precise, inhabited.
MoCap Week shows you both. How a real gesture becomes a digital one, and how a performer can bring any character to life — human, animal, creature, emotion.
Welcoming international artists and professionals means recognising that creation can come from here. Mocap gives independent productions and emerging voices the same tools as the major industries. An invitation to turn our insularity into a strength.
(Take part)
How to take part? Simple:
Either way: you are welcome.
Write to us(Our trainers)
Experts from film, video games and live performance.
Meet the trainers(They were there)
A Caribbean island is not the first place you would expect to find motion capture. Yet mocap in Martinique is both happening & developing fast! At the invitation of Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud of 150 m d’altitude, I came over to discuss his future workshop plans and to deliver an introduction workshop for performing in motion capture. I found curiosity, enthusiasm, creativity & talent among the students. The future of mocap in Martinique looks bright!
Experiencing motion capture was a revelation. I barely knew it, and I discovered a vast, rich art form that is already present in our video games and films without my realising how far it reaches.
John Dower’s direction of the actors struck me in particular: precise, sensitive, opening up real space for creativity and imagination.
This world, still little explored in the French West Indies, is fascinating and full of promise — for art, for science and for many other fields. I came out of it changed, curious, convinced of its potential.
Thank you to Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud for opening this path and revealing this technological gem. An experience to repeat and to pass on.
This very enriching event really helped me get to know and understand motion capture, thanks to the demonstrations and workshops. It highlighted the link between physical expression and motion capture, and the hands-on sessions showed motion capture in a very concrete way. The speakers were highly professional and passionate.
All of this made me even more excited to watch motion capture flourish in Martinique and to see more of Georges-Emmanuel’s work in this field. I can’t wait to take part in the next edition.
