Some neat info on Halo:Reach motion capture stuff. Here is a tiny snippet.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=Spandex
When you watch the VGA Trailer, pay special attention to the moment the Falcon goes airborne and the camera pulls back and away. If it looks as if it’s being carried by embedded personnel on the ground, it’s because it is. The Cinecam is capable of mimicking those motions accurately because someone is literally holding a camera to get that shot, stepping backwards to avoid the wash from the Falcon in the scene.
“The Cinecam lets you do some mocap, clean your scene up, and put it all back into Motion Builder. From your monitor you can see the scene playing back, it can be looping if you need it to, and you can move the camera and get the perfect view using handheld or steady cam. However you wanna do it in the volume, it works.
It’s the same process that was used in the making of Avatar, except ours uses a cheaper monitor and a couple of pieces of wood leftover from one Kurt’s (Nellis) home projects. Less money, same results.”
