Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Synthetic media & digital replicas · Specialist

Performance capture

Also called: mocap performance

ELI5

Recording an actor’s movement, face or voice to drive a digital character or representation.

Used in conversation

“The production plan needs to address the performance capture before work begins.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Performance capture” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.