Climate Stack, the podcast where digital technology meets the fight against climate change! If you're a software professional with a passion for solving hard problems and a drive to make a difference, you're in the right place. Your hosts Mansi and Joshua, are seasoned technologists who have dedicated decades to building enterprise software solutions in Silicon Valley. Driven by a shared commitment to leave behind a better world, they transitioned to climate action. Through Climate Stack, th ...
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Ever wondered about how they transformed Andy Serkis into Gollum or King Kong? Or how they put such gut-wrenching performances into games like The Last of Us? Well look no further than the home of mo-cap as Season 5 of the Performance Capture Podcast kicks off with a raft of amazing talent, With Actors, Directors, Producers, technicians, Casting Directors, and much more who have worked on the biggest projects in the world. The amazing Victoria Atkin, who you may know as Evie Frye from Assass ...
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Targeting Industrial Emissions with Eugenie.AI and Dr Soudip Roy Chowdhury
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In this episode we speak with Dr Soudip Roy Chowdhury, CEO of Eugenie.ai. Eugenie is building an AI platform that is helping to reduce carbon emissions from asset-heavy manufacturing operations. Many industrial processes, such as steel and cement production, require large amounts of energy to generate high temperature process heat. The current reli…
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Architecting Carbon Conscious Software, with Charles Humble
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In this episode we speak with Charles Humble, climate polymath and author, about why we as software engineers should think about energy consumption of our workloads. We also talk about how nascent legislation and standards are turning externalities into real costs, forcing innovation that gives us more control over software energy usage. Charles ha…
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AI Weather Forecasts for Climate Adaptation with Dr. Peetak Mitra
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In this episode we speak with Dr Peetak Mitra, veteran of countless climate change projects, on the founding team of Excarta, core member of ClimateChange.AI, and gracious human being. He illuminates the role AI/ML can play in adapting to a warming planet, describes the ML techniques his company employs in their breakthrough tools, and gives advice…
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"Forging Ahead & Giving Back" - Victoria Atkin
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This week Jasper sits down to interview the one & only Victoria Atkin. Finally, we get a chance to hear from the lady who started it all and works so hard to bring new people into this growing and evolving space! FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes o…
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Today we sit down with our first director of Season 6! A fantastic insight into what a director's job looks like! FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes of season 8 on Patreon right now: https://www.patreon.com/PerformanceCapturePodcast Hosted on Acast.…
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"A Giant Fighting Robot For Defence, That's The Future" With Jeffrey Ovadya
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Jeffrey Ovadya is the Director of Sales, Support at Vicon who are the reason this whole podcast continues to get made. Talking today with Victoria about the future of P-Cap and what is next for Vicon! FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes of season 8 o…
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"Right Your Playing That Character" - With Johnny Alexander
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Today we are joined but someone who you have almost certainly seen before as he has done stunts for, the Mandolorian, Creed, Avatar & Black Panther just to name a few. He talks about the dedication and craft required for such a demanding role. FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon disco…
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"There Is So Much More That Is Possible" - With Veronica Smith
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Joining us to talk about how her first project in performance capture was Avatar the Way Of Water is Veronica Smith, who also works as a brilliant camera operator, cinematographer and co-owner of Films Dreams inc FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes o…
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"Imagination Olympics" - With Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
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Our second Baldurs Gate 3 Alumni is here, a fantastic actor and performer whose credits include Wednesday the Netflix original series! For any TTRPG fans out there a fun reunion for Jasper & Unati. FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes of season 8 on P…
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"It's A Two Billion Dollar Film" - With Neil Watson
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Director and camera operator Neil Watson joins us to talk all about his experience working on the incredible Avatar movie series and the monstrous amount of effort and passion behind the world's biggest performance capture project. FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen …
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"Voice & Body In Tandem" - With Devora Wilde
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Fresh from the starring role in the hit video game Baldurs Gate 3 where she plays Lae'zel, Devora joins us to talk about stepping into this HUGE and ambitious game! FIND THE E-COURSE HERE: https://www.bookvopcap.com/e-course Don't forget about the exclusive Patreon discount. Listen to all 8 episodes of season 8 on Patreon right now: https://www.pat…
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"2 Assassins Have Some Things to Teach You" - With Michael Antonakos
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This week Jasper is taking the reins asking the questions of two assassins about their brand new E-Course which looks to be the perfect introduction to stalking your targ... I mean a perfect introduction to Performace Capture & what you need to know if you are thinking about starting a career in this wonderful new world! Make sure you stick around …
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Jasper William Cartwright - Starting the Journey
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Brand new Season 5 Co-Host and producer Jasper is interviewed by Victoria. They talk about how they met, what lead them to working on this show together & how Jasper managed to quit the day job to work in video games! Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria interview Jasper right now over on our brand new Patreon?! https://www.patr…
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Today is all about the magic of Motion Capture, with the incredible Liz Albl, Narrative Lead at Cloud Chamber on BIOSHOCK, who has also worked on, Ghost of Tsushima, Watch Dogs: Legion, Far Cry 5, Far Cry 4 & Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Follow Liz on Twitter here: @mslizalbl Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria interview Jas…
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This week we talk to soon to me Mo-Cap star, Arkie Reece. We talk about being dropped in at the deep end, finding the rhythms of different acting work & accidentally wandering onto the wrong set! Follow Arkie on Instagram here: @arkiereece Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria interview Jasper right now over on our brand new Patr…
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We are back with another incredible casting director & actor the Head of Casting and Senior Producer at Formosa Interactive Kirsten Scoles. In this enlightening interview we talk about going deeper and understanding what acting is, how to see what they are offering you, and speak the language. Find more about Kirsten here: http://www.kirstenscoles.…
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Alex Counsell - Finding the Next Generation
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Motion Capture is a technology that never sits still, constantly innovating and breaking new ground! No one knows this better than this week's guest Alex Counsell the Technical Director for the Centre for Creative and Immersive & eXtended Realities at Portsmouth Univeristy. He provides a fantastic window into what goes into finding the next crop of…
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Jamie Bafus - Casting Video Games & Finding the Right People
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This week we talk to one of the key figures at Sony, the Head of Casting who has worked on some of the biggest games God of War, Horizon, Spider-man, Last of Us & many more! This episode is a truly fascinating conversation about what goes into casting the biggest games in the world, Jamie gives insight & advice for actors as well as what it takes t…
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What is it like designing Batman's lair? We don't know but luckily we know someone who does! Our next guest is the amazing Derron Ross. Having been a part of some of the most incredible video game moments in history, we are very lucky to be joined by stuntwork and video game royalty. Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria intervie…
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Having played some of the gaming's truly iconic characters like Apex Legend’s Valkyrie, Halo Infinite’s Lumu & Destiny 2’s Ana Bray, Erika Ishii stops by to talk about her journey! About how there are so many ways to hone your craft and become a better performer. Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria interview Jasper right now ov…
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Todd Stashwick - In Front & Behind the Markers.
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This week we chat with the human omi-tool that is the wickedly talented Todd Stashwick! Having been on both sides of the camera when it comes to performance capture Todd provides a truly unique insight. The perfect way to kick off a new season! Enjoying the show? Want more? Why not listen to Victoria interview Jasper right now over on our brand new…
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Season 4 – Episode 08 – REMINGTON SCOTT - CEO OF HYPERREAL, MOCAPPING GOLUM AND MORE
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Remington is the CEO and Chief Architect of Hyperreal® Inc., a firm dedicated to engineering the worlds most recognized digital humans called HyperModels™. Hyperreal has created Madison Beer's HyperModel and digital performance for Sony's Immersive Music Virtual Concert. Remington is an acclaimed cinematic director for best selling video games an…
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Season 4 – Episode 07 – ELIZABETH GRULLÓN - MOTION CAPTURE AND MEDITATION
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Elizabeth Grullón is an artist with many talents - she is a director, a voice over artist, motion capture performer, practitioner of meditation, and entrepreneur. From working on animated series on Cartoon Network and Disney, to voicing the Beyoncé Formation world tour, to performing full motion capture in Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Elizabeth br…
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Season 4 – Episode 06 – ACE RUELE - CREATURE-BIONICS
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Inspired by actors such as Jim Carrey, Wesley Snipes and Andy Serkis, Ace Ruele is known for his animated and physically demanding acting abilities. From a young age, Ace was interested in becoming an action actor, but when he discovered motion capture and creature acting whilst working on the film, The Legend of Tarzan (2016), he instantly knew th…
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Season 4 – Episode 05 - CAROLINE LIVINGSTONE - Producing and Directing
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Caroline lives in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. She began her career as an actor and transitioned to directing. Caroline works at Humanoid Studios. When this episode was recorded she was with Bioware, for whom she worked for 13 years. Anthem (2019) was Bioware’s first venture in performance capture. As Producer and Director at Bioware, Caroline covered…
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Season 4 – Episode 04 - MICHAEL ANTONAKOS: Assassins Creed and Batman
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Michael Antonakos has been performing since the age of seven. He spent most of his youth growing up in the Rocky Mountain's learning theatre in the Banff, Alberta and performing with the Rocky Mountain Shakespeare Company. After leaving the University for theatre he moved to Vancouver B.C, where he began focusing on film and television, his career …
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Season 4 – Episode 03 – EMILY SCHWEBER: Casting actors for performance capture
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Emily began her career working on commercials and movies in the Bay Area. After moving to Los Angeles, she worked with the late Mali Finn on such films as Terminator 2, True Lies, and Titanic for James Cameron, L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys for Curtis Hanson, The Matrix for the Wachowskis, and The Client, A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, and Tig…
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