Shining the starlight on industry trailblazers shooting for the stars

Exclusive TrailblaXR interview: REPLIKANT on the future of interactive digital experiences
Past, present, and future – REPLIKANT’s CTO Luc Schurgers shares how he is redefining animation and digital content with the companies AI-powered 3D virtual production platform that brings high-quality character creation, digital humans, and immersive environments within reach of every creator.

Manifold Valley: Cinematic quality digital humans
Los Angeles start-up develops cutting-edge performance capture and 3D scanning technology to bring hyper-realistic digital humans to life in games. Have your say in their industry questionnaire.

On a quest to shape the future of entertainment
Enter the realm where creativity meets technology to forge hyper-realistic digital humans, bridging film, gaming, and extended reality. Meet multi-award winner Jeasy Sehgal, a trailblazing creative technologist and filmmaker from New Zealand, we now find him at home in Atlanta, USA

Emil Nidal: Crosses over from VFX to Games
With multiple blockbuster movie credits to his name for his work on the likes of Wonka, Doctor Strange, Venom and Amazon Prime TV series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Emil Nidal’s career in virtual production, motion capture and real-time now finds him in the world of video games as Technical Animator

Berlin to the world: Onpoint Studios, a trio of motion capture and virtual production ninjas
A portfolio that gleams with notable clients and productions the likes of creative music videos In Your Eyes ft. Alida by acclaimed Musician, DJ and Producer Robin Schulz showcased by Epic Games, and another soon to be released. The popular Diamonds music video by Swiss rapper, Monet192. Multiple in-house projects for partner NEXR and Staramba including the highly successful FC Bayern Munich Virtual Reality experience. Immersive VR security training for Pixaera, and début of their innovative Remote Motion Capture streaming pipeline in collaboration with computer games studio Another Coffee promoting their multi-player online game UMI, plus many more.
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