How Shocap Entertainment is launching circus into the Metaverse through blockbuster VFX and triple-A games

2 June, 2022

Shocap’s ground-breaking techniques in extended reality, production quality visual effects and AAA games brings the art of circus, dance and theatre for live entertainment now and to the future of Web3

By Siobhán Hofma

When we think about visual effects and game engines, naturally movies and TV, cloud and console gaming spring to mind. And where many have visited a circus whether in-venue or viewed on television and the Big Screen, we tend to associate circus with travelling tents, up-turned faces gasping in awe with feats of superhuman acts performed under the dizzying heights of canvas and tent poles.

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Today, the art of circus and theatre is catapulted into the future thanks to the combination of technical expertise and artistic prowess which Shocap Entertainment in Vancouver delivers through cutting-edge techniques in high fidelity real-time animation, stunning visual effects, game development, virtual production, performance capture and immersive – the foundations where Co-Founder and Creative Director, Athomas Goldberg and his team stem. Fusing production pipelines in animation, motion capture and VFX, with high-performance real-time technologies and hardware ranging from Epic Games Unreal Engine, NVIDIA, Autodesk Maya and MotionBuilder for mocap and animation work, artistic finessing using the Adobe Creative Suite toolkit and LED wall display tech. The company use their proprietary Ringmaster Virtual Performance System, a revolutionary new tool that connects all of Shocap’s technological solutions under centralised control. Rich VR experiences are brought to life through HMD’s Oculus Quest, HP Reverb and Z2 and more. To handle livestreaming, cloud hosting and pixel streaming for up-and-coming live show Carry Me Home on June 4th, NVIDIA, LiveSwitch, PureWeb and Heavenue have been employed to deliver the simultaneous experiences in real-time to online audiences across the globe.

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