MOTUS DIGITAL ACQUIRES VICON MX-F40 SYSTEM

Dallas-based Animation Studio Installs Advanced VICON Motion Capture System for Animation and Visual Effects Projects

Los Angeles, CA (August 7, 2007)—VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, announced the sale of a 24-camera

F40 system to Motus Digital. Motus Digital will be using the VICON cameras to work on various internal animation projects—allowing Motus to become a one-stop shop for CG animation and visual effects.

Motus Digital purchased a VICON system to operate as a fully-functional motion capture service bureau and animation facility for a wide range of clientele in film, games, television and commercials. The facility also plans to develop internal animation projects in the future.

“We have worked with a number of VICON Motion Capture Systems over the years and always appreciated the relative ease of calibration and operation of their systems; not to mention, they capture great data,” says Shane Williams, Producer & Creative Director, Motus Digital.

“Industry pervasiveness associated with the quality of both VICON’s Motion Capture System and that of their crew sealed our decision. Simply stated, we feel VICON’s dominance in this industry speaks for itself; therefore, the choice to go with VICON was an easy one,” added B. Keith Brock, Partner, Motus Digital.

The VICON F-Series cameras represent the world's first and only optical cameras to include proprietary sensors that were custom designed for motion-capture applications. The new cameras are part of the award-winning MX platform from VICON, with the F standing for "Faster Full Frame" motion capture. The VICON F40 camera is capable of capturing 370 frames-per-second at 4 million pixels.

“The high resolution of the MX cameras and the advanced shuttered sensors of the new ‘F’ series make them truly awesome performers on the technical side,” commented Crispin Broadhurst, Mocap Supervisor & Technical Director, Motus Digital.

“We’re very excited that Motus Digital is building out a VICON-based motion capture studio in Dallas,” said Tom Armbruster, Business Development Manager, VICON. “The animation community for film, television and games is thriving in the region and we look forward to seeing the work that this incredibly talented team will be producing.”

About Motus Digital, LLC

Motus Digital, LLC is a new studio comprised of team members who have many years of experience in CG, visual effects and motion capture. Since 1986, Motus Digital’s handpicked team has provided post-production visual effects services to the film, television and gaming. The company’s breadth of services includes model making, computer-generated imagery, digital animation, optical motion capture, and custom software and code development. The founding members of Motus Digital have earned accolades for their contributions to projects such as “The Abyss,” “Godzilla,” “Jimmy Neutron,” “Stargate,” “5th Element,” “Titanic,” and many others.

About VICON
Academy Award®-winning VICON is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, serving customers and CG animation applications in film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. VICON operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters, a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for VICON’s service company House of Moves as well as 125 VICON MX40 cameras.

VICON is the largest holding of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defense, life science and engineering markets. Other holdings include Emmy Award®-winning 2d3 and newly founded Geospatial Vision Ltd.

VICON’s and OMG’s global clients include: life science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, National Pitching Association; engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others. For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, or www.2d3.com.

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