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71 GAME ENGINES Character Creation

Words by Chelsea Fearnley

Indie animation studio Mimic Productions is creating human beings on demand

imic Productions is a Berlin- based 3D animation and motion capture studio that creates CGI humans that are almost

indistinguishable from real ones.

The company grew from humble beginnings: David Bennett, who has over 20 years of experience in the 3D industry, working across major blockbuster titles like Avatar and Planet of the Apes , started the company with his wife Hermione Mitford in 2012. The duo intended to offer consulting in facial animation, but then large projects began to land at their door. “As soon as we were asked to do the facial animation for Kanye West’s Black Skinhead video, we knew we had to scale out,” explains Mitford. “Over the last eight years, we’ve developed a team in Berlin and now offer the full 3D character creation pipeline all under one roof, which, for an indie studio like ours, is quite unusual.”

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