Fabrice Visserot, former lead artist in Eurocom’s facial animation team, has decided to put some career down time to good use by creating one of the most impressive one-person tech demos we’ve seen in ages.

The video above shows Visserot re-enacting Gollum’s famous ‘split personality’ sequence from The Two Towers. According to his website, the animation is purely driven by the motion capture, with no manual clean-up.

Even more impressively, that motion capture was recorded on a homebrew set-up created using nothing more than four Samsung HMX-H300 consumer camcorders.

See the final commercial here vimeo.com/17337026

Director / Compositor : Paul Clements
3D Environments : Paul McGeoch

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Filmed at SIGGRAPH 2013, Michele Sciolette, Head of VFX Technology at Cinesite in Soho, was on our booth showing how they have been using ftrack with NUKEX at their facility. Michele demonstrates how they put NUKE & ftrack through its paces on World War Z. © 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Footage courtesy of Cinesite.

Music featured in clip by Marco Beltrami – Philadelphia copyright owned by WMG
Filmed for us by FX Guide at SIGGRAPH 2013

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TypoMad is an event about typography held this year in Madrid . They trusted us to produce the Opening Credits. Our purpose was to capture as sketching on paper how a typography becomes something solid, all through this metaphor of evolution. Abstractly alluding to beziers lines, ink and the definition of a new creation.

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