Framestore’s performance capture technology is being deployed in a new BBC chat show hosted by a 3D Vladimir Putin.
The BBC said: “In a television first, ground-breaking live VFX, created using performance capture technology, developed by creative studio Framestore, enables a 3D digital cartoon of Putin to walk around and sit behind the desk, interviewing real human guests in front of a studio audience, all in real-time.”
Semi-scripted comedy chat show Tonight With Vladimir Putin will have two pilot episodes on BBC Two, featuring guests Alastair Campbell, June Sarpong, Joe Swash and Deborah Frances-White.
The show is co-created by Framestore’s Simon Whalley, while Vladimir Putin is written and performed by Natt Tapley.
