font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black;">A physical day of exercises, play and exploration as well as some theory on the technology and methodology of how mocap works with veteran mocap performer and director, Paul-William Mawhinney, building a solid foundation for working in performance capture. Paul is currently the Lead Performance Director at Larian Studios.

This class does not take place in a mocap studio or in mocap suits as it would only serve as a distraction and additional cost at this stage.

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Time:

10am to 5:45pm on Saturday October 31, 2026

Address:

Mountview- 120 Peckham Hill Street London SE15 5JT

Please wear comfortable clothes that you can move in and bring something to make notes with.

Paul-William Mawhinney is a creative professional with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Across that time, he has worked professionally as an actor, director, voiceover artist, performance coach, video game narrative designer and performance capture 1st assistant director.

A graduate of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA, Sydney), he spent a lot of his early career focusing on acting for theatre. When he moved to London in 2015, he met John Dower and Oliver Hollis-Leick at the Mocap Vaults’ “Intro to Mocap.” Since beginning his training with The Mocap Vaults he has worked on more than 30 motion capture projects. His credits in the realm of Mocap and Pcap include work in films, animations, VR, e-learning and video games, ranging from smaller independent projects all the way through to many AAA titles. Still a passionate performer, nowadays his focus is more on performance direction. Some of his notable credits of late have been as the Performance Capture Director on Fallen Leaf Studio’s 2023 Sci-fi thriller game, Fort Solis, and between 2021 - 2024 he was working with Playground Games, on their new Fable game as their Associate Performance Director. However, at present, he is the Lead Performance Director for Larian Studios.

As a performance coach and tutor, he has taught at some of the world’s most prestigious drama training institutions, including: Germany’s Filmakademie, Drama Studio London, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art’s Open Program, The Sydney Theatre Company’s Education Department, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and was the founding head of the Acting for Digital Media MA/MFA course at East 15 Acting School. Paul was invited to begin teaching with the Mocap Vaults in 2019 and has loved every mocap minute of it since then!

THE MOCAP VAULTS CANCELLATION POLICY

By Purchasing this class, you agree to our cancellation policy which states that we require a minimum of seven (7) days’ notice to qualify for a partial refund.

We will attempt to replace you in the event of a cancellation. If we can replace you, you will receive a refund minus Admin fee that amounts to 20% of your original payment for the class and PayPal has recently changed their terms and conditions and will no longer refund their transaction fee so this will be included in addition to the Admin fee. This means that you will receive the total, minus the Admin & PayPal fee, in the event of a refund.

If you cancel within Seven (7) days of the class and we cannot replace you, you will not receive a refund.

If you would like to carry over a credit for a class missed due to illness or other circumstances beyond The Mocap Vaults control, and agreed upon by the instructor, you will only be able to carry the credit over for the next following class that is offered on the date it is offered with no exceptions. After that, you will forfeit the credit and not be issued a refund.