Project Overview
AI Motion Capture Suite
IPH Technologies engineered UNOMi's Motion Capture Suite — a markerless, AI-powered platform that converts standard video footage into production-ready 3D character animation, eliminating the cost, facilities, and technical overhead of traditional motion capture systems.
Client
UNOMi
Industry
Media & Entertainment / Animation & VFX
Platform
Desktop & Cloud Batch Processing
Services
AI/CV Engineering · Desktop Dev · Pipeline Integration · QA
Key Integrations
Maya · Blender · Unity · Unreal Engine · MotionBuilder
Core Innovation
Markerless AI Motion Capture
About Project
Giving Every Studio Access to Professional Mocap
UNOMi builds animation software that solves one of the industry's most time-consuming and expensive problems — capturing realistic human motion for 3D characters. A growing VFX and animation studio specializing in character-driven content struggled with the prohibitive costs and technical complexity of traditional motion capture systems: $50K–$500K+ in optical marker rigs, sensor suits, and dedicated capture stages, all before a single frame of usable animation existed.
With the Motion Capture Suite, that same realistic character movement is captured from a standard video recording — no bodysuits, no calibration rigs, no studio booking. Thirty minutes of footage and a few hours of processing replaces a full-day studio session, reducing production time by 70–80% and mocap costs by 90–95%, without sacrificing the accuracy production-quality animation demands.
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Business Challenges
The Barriers Standing Between Studios and Realistic Animation
Traditional motion capture workflows impose substantial barriers that restrict access and inflate production costs across the animation industry. These pain points drove the need for a markerless, AI-driven solution like UNOMi's Motion Capture Suite.
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Prohibitive Equipment Costs — Investment requirements of $50K–$500K+ for optical marker systems, sensor suits, and dedicated capture stages, placing professional mocap beyond reach for indie studios and freelancers.
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Facility Dependencies — Mandatory access to specialized studios with controlled environments, camera arrays, and calibrated spaces, limiting spontaneous capture opportunities and location-based shooting flexibility.
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Technical Complexity Barriers — Steep learning curves for marker placement, camera calibration, data cleanup, and retargeting workflows, requiring specialized technicians and extending production timelines.
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Talent and Scheduling Constraints — Performers wearing restrictive bodysuits with markers, combined with limited studio availability, creates scheduling bottlenecks and reduces spontaneous creative experimentation.
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Data Processing Overhead — Hours of manual cleanup work correcting marker occlusions, solving tracking errors, and refining skeletal data before usable animation emerges.
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Limited Creative Flexibility — Inability to capture movement from archival footage, reference videos, or outdoor locations, constraining authentic motion references and period-specific performances.
These obstacles don't just escalate budgets — they stifle creative ambition, forcing studios to choose between authentic motion and financial viability. UNOMi's Motion Capture Suite removes that trade-off entirely.
Key Features Delivered
What IPH Technologies Built Into the Motion Capture Suite
IPH Technologies engineered the complete markerless mocap pipeline — from raw video ingestion to pipeline-ready export — without sacrificing the accuracy or flexibility professional animation demands.
Markerless Video Capture
Capture professional-grade motion data from standard video footage — no sensor suits, no calibration rigs, no specialist studio required — cutting mocap costs by 90–95%.
Equipment Cost$0
Setup TimeMinutes
No markers
90–95% cheaper
Standard video
AI-Powered Skeletal Tracking
Proprietary deep learning models detect 33+ body keypoints with sub-pixel accuracy across varied body types, clothing styles, lighting conditions, and camera angles — validated at 88% accuracy against marker-based systems.
Video frame → skeletal keypoint mapping
33+ keypoints
88% accuracy
Sub-pixel
Universal Pipeline Integration
Seamless export to Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, and MotionBuilder with automatic rig retargeting and timeline synchronization — no workflow overhaul, no proprietary format lock-in.
Maya
Blender
Unity
Unreal Engine
Real-Time GPU Preview
Preview skeletal tracking results instantly within the application — no render wait, no export round-trip. Directors and animators see usable output immediately, shortening review cycles.
Tracking
Skeleton
Export
GPU accelerated
Instant preview
No render wait
Location Freedom
Shoot anywhere — outdoor locations, historical settings, live production sets — without transporting equipment or booking facilities. Archival footage and existing recordings can all be processed too.
Any location
Archival footage
No facility needed
Batch Processing at Scale
Process unlimited footage volumes through managed batch queues, from single-character shorts to multi-performer feature film sequences — with no per-capture costs or throughput ceiling.
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Queue
Unlimited volume
Managed queues
No per-capture cost
Works Natively With
Maya
Blender
Unity
Unreal Engine
MotionBuilderPlatform Views
Live Platform Views
The Motion Capture Suite delivers a focused, professional experience purpose-built for animators — combining video ingestion, AI skeletal tracking, real-time preview, and pipeline export into one seamless tool.
Video Capture & Ingestion
Multi-format video ingestion supporting 4K resolution, variable frame rates, and automatic camera motion compensation for handheld footage.
Skeletal Tracking Viewer
Visual overlay of 33+ tracked body keypoints across the source footage with confidence scoring per frame.
AI Tracking Engine
Automated pose estimation and depth reconstruction running as footage is processed, with no manual marker cleanup.
Real-Time GPU Preview
Instant, in-app skeletal animation preview with no render wait or export round-trip.
Manual Correction
Frame-by-frame joint adjustments with full animator control over AI-generated tracking results.
Export & Integration
One-click export with automatic rig retargeting directly to Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, and MotionBuilder.
Product Visuals
In Action
Visual references from the UNOMi Motion Capture Suite — showcasing markerless tracking, skeletal reconstruction, and the batch processing workflow.
Design System
Brand Colour Palette & Typography
The Motion Capture Suite's visual identity was built for a data-dense, high-contrast working environment — a deep charcoal canvas paired with a high-visibility tracking cyan for skeletal overlays and confidence data.
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Technology Stack
Built for Speed, Precision & Production Scale
The Motion Capture Suite operates on a performance-optimized foundation engineered for professional animation workflows — combining a high-performance processing core, proprietary deep learning tracking models, and GPU-accelerated real-time preview.
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Core Framework
Python & C++ Engine
High-performance processing architecture supporting both desktop applications and cloud-based batch processing for scalability.
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AI & Vision
Pose Estimation Models
Proprietary deep learning algorithms detecting 33+ body keypoints with sub-pixel accuracy across diverse footage types and quality levels.
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Video Processing
Ingestion Pipeline
Multi-format video ingestion supporting 4K resolution, variable frame rates, and automatic camera motion compensation for handheld footage.
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3D Reconstruction
Skeletal Rigging
Converts 2D tracking data into full 3D skeletal animation with intelligent depth estimation and natural joint constraint systems.
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Export & Integration
Pipeline Export
Seamless export to Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, and MotionBuilder with automatic rig retargeting and timeline synchronization.
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Performance
GPU Acceleration
Real-time preview capabilities and accelerated batch processing enabling efficient handling of feature-length productions.
Development Process
How We Engineered
Building the Motion Capture Suite required deep collaboration between IPH Technologies' engineering team and the UNOMi product team — combining animation domain expertise with cutting-edge AI and computer vision engineering.
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Discovery & Consultation
A structured discovery call to learn UNOMi's business goals, users, and the specific mocap problem to solve — so the project wouldn't drift in scope, budget, or timeline.
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Requirements Gathering & Scope Definition
Analysts translated conversations into a formal requirements document, prioritising features and defining acceptance criteria before development began.
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Design, Architecture & Prototyping
Designers and architects defined the UX and technical foundation for the capture, tracking, and export workflow, with clickable prototypes reviewed and approved before a single line of code was written.
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Agile Development & Quality Assurance
Development ran in two-week sprints, each closing with a working demo, while QA engineers tested tracking accuracy and pipeline exports in parallel to catch issues while they were still inexpensive to fix.
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Client Review & Iteration
Structured review cycles sat at every major milestone, with feedback treated as a required input, iterating until the tracking accuracy and workflow met the acceptance criteria exactly.
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Launch, Onboarding & Ongoing Support
Delivery didn't end at go-live — deployment management, documentation, team onboarding, and ongoing support followed as a continuing partnership.
Results & Impact
Measurable Outcomes at a Glance
Through its partnership with IPH Technologies, UNOMi delivered a markerless AI motion capture suite that fundamentally changes what's possible for studios working with character-driven, motion-captured content.
90–95%
Reduction in motion capture equipment and production costs
88%
Tracking accuracy validated against traditional marker-based systems
70–80%
Faster production cycles compared to traditional mocap workflows
30 min
Typical capture session length, down from full-day studio bookings
33+
Body keypoints tracked with sub-pixel accuracy per frame
5+
Animation engines supported with automatic rig retargeting
Client Feedback
From the Team
Hear directly from the UNOMi team on working with IPH Technologies — from tackling a genuinely hard computer vision problem to shipping a tool that changes how their studio budgets for animation.
Founder Testimonial
"IPH Technologies took on a problem we'd assumed was unsolvable without expensive hardware. The markerless tracking they built holds up against systems that cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their ongoing support has kept the tool improving with every release."
Video Testimonial
Client ReviewFAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Markerless motion capture uses AI and computer vision to track human movement directly from standard video footage, with no need for sensor suits, optical markers, or calibrated capture stages. Traditional mocap requires that specialized hardware and environment, which is where most of its cost and complexity comes from.
IPH Technologies built the Motion Capture Suite with native export support for Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine, and MotionBuilder — including automatic rig retargeting and timeline synchronization. This keeps animators inside their existing pipeline, with no proprietary format lock-in and no manual rework after export.
Every project follows a structured six-stage process: discovery and consultation, requirements gathering and scope definition, design and prototyping, agile sprint development with parallel QA, client review and iteration, and launch with ongoing support. A working demo is delivered at the end of every two-week sprint, and no sprint closes without client sign-off.
In this project, the tracking models reached 88% accuracy against traditional marker-based systems in professional studio testing, meeting broadcast and AAA game quality standards for most production use cases.
Fully transparent. Clients receive daily updates during active development, weekly progress reports as standard, shared roadmaps, and fortnightly sprint demos. Every communication is jargon-free and tells you exactly what is done, what is in progress, and what comes next — no black boxes, no surprises.
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