MELBOURNE MOCAP WEEKENDER WORKSHOP
MELBOURNE. Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December 2025. BOOKINGS NOW OPEN
Train in one of the most thrilling performance media – and learn not just how to ‘do mocap’, but how to ‘do it well’. In stunning collaboration with Dreamscreen Australia and Tracklab, Captivate brings you the only independent mocap training courses in Australia.
WHAT IS IT?
This is an action-packed two-day course, which throws you right into the craft of performing for Performance Capture and Motion Capture.
Performance Capture and Motion Capture are used commonly across the film and tv industries world-wide. However despite its wide use, it is still a medium that most actors have not had the chance to work in.
This workshop will throw you into first-hand experience working for mocap: how the technology works, how a mocap shoot runs, what may be expected of an actor during a shoot and how we curate our best work. We will dive into a range of elements such as studio protocols, movement concepts, physical story-telling and creature creation… and explore these through common industry contexts such as shooting animated scenes and gaming characters.
In addition to focused workshop sessions out of the mocap volume, each day you will absolutely be in the mocap suit and in the volume to apply the skills you have explored. It will be active, it will be energetic and it will be exhilarating.
By the end of the workshop you will have a thorough familiarity with the tech and how you interact with it – and you will be industry-ready to step into a shoot and deliver high-quality material. And, well yeah you will have had two days stretching out all aspects of your performance as a creature, human or animal in a virtual animated world. It’s fun.
WHEN IS IT?
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December 2025
10:00am to 6:30pm
WHERE IS IT?
77 Willandra Drive, Epping, Melbourne. 3076
WHO IS IT FOR?
This workshop is ideal for performers from a range of backgrounds: actors, musical theatre performers, opera performers, stunt performers, dancers; as well as those with a particular ‘special skill’ such as martial arts, acrobatics, elite sports etc. We will both encourage you to utilise your preexisting strengths as well as explore new performance skills – and as such we cater for all levels of experience, ability and fitness. Having said that, mocap performance can often be very energy-demanding – so the fitter you are, the more you can throw yourself into the a range of work.
Captivate advocates for diverse and equitable work- and learning-spaces. If you have any concerns, questions or requests for support of any kind please get in touch with us.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
COURSE FEES:
EARLY BIRD: $665 +GST (register and finalise payment by 1st September 2025)
CONCESSION: $685 +GST
STANDARD: $695 +GST
HOW DO I JOIN IN?
Bookings are now open. Spots are very competitive – we have strict capacity limits and places sell out quickly. So register early to save your spot (and get the Early Bird price).
Just fill out the online registration form below. A minimum 50% deposit is required to complete your registration.
After you register you should receive a confirmation email. An invoice will be then sent to you within 2 working days – which will give you options for Bank Transfer (no admin free) or online card payment through Stripe (1.7% admin fee). We can also arrange a PayPal invoice (3% admin fee).
If you don’t hear from us at all then check your junk mail, then get in touch.
Please note that we’re not able to reserve your workshop place without a deposit payment. Your spot is only fully confirmed on receipt on full payment, and any payments made are nonrefundable.
About your tutors:
LYNDALL GRANT (she/her):
LYNDALL GRANT (she/her) is a Fight Director, Movement Director, actor and Motion Capture Specialist who works in Australia and Internationally for stage and screen. She is a Senior Teacher and Vice President with the Society of Australian Fight Directors, and certified Dramatic Combat teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Lyndall currently teaches stage combat and motion capture at the WAAPA, Victorian College of the Arts, 16th Street Actors Studio, Collarts, JMC and National Theatre Drama School.
Lyndall trained as an actor as London’s ArtsEd School of Acting, before specialising in fight performance and physical performance. She began working as a fight director in London in 2010. In 2013 Lyndall established Captivate Action Ltd. in the U.K., as the first company to specialise in training and performance in action and Motion Capture, and brought this company home to Australia in 2016. Lyndall was an actor and movement captain in Melbourne’s production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 2018 to 2022
Recent fight/movement credits include MJ the Musical , The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Oscar (The Australian Ballet); Rusalka (Opera Australia, West Australian Opera); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A Christmas Carol, Sunset Boulevard, Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris, 2:22 A Ghost Story (GWB); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches), Never Have I Ever, The Robot Dog, Cost of Living, Topdog/Underdog, The Almighty Sometimes, 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, As You Like It, Berlin, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Architect, Cosi, Torch the Place, The Lady in the Van, Astroman, Lillith the Jungle Girl, Straight White Men, Melbourne Talam, Macbeth, Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre); 37 (Queensland Theatre Company); Sunday, Is God Is, Lord of the Flies, Cosi (Sydney Theatre Company), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Blackout Songs, The Way Things Are (Red Stitch); Il Viaggio A Reims (Opera Australia); Things I Know to Be True (Theatre Works); Milked, True West, Two Remain, Punk Rock (45 Downstairs), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal Haymarket, U.K.), Alice in Winterland, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (Rose Theatre Kingston, U.K.), Henry IV Part 1 (St. James Theatre, U.K.), Romeo and Juliet (Melbourne Shakespeare Company).
JOSH BELL (he/him):
JOSH BELL (he/him) is an associate fight director for Captivate, actor and theatre-maker based in Melbourne. Under the mentorship of Lyndall Grant he is a Journey Fight Director and Secretary of the Society of Australian Fight Directors. He has a BFA in Theatre Practice (Acting Company 2016) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Josh has regular teaching engagements teaching stage combat to students across public workshops, university and secondary schools – including Collarts, Grace Acting Studios, National Theatre Drama School and Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.
Fight credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Slay Theatre); Hamlet, The Whale, Julius Caesar, 12th Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Melbourne Shakespeare Company); Powder Room (MC Showroom); Crocodile Fever (TART Theatre Collective); The View From Up Here (The Voice in My Hands, Theatreworks); Gundog (Three Fates Theatre); Cloud 9 (VCA); Everyone is Famous (Riot Theatre); The Cane (Red Stitch Theatre); The Human Voice Project (Periscope Productions); and Stockholm (Et Tu Theatre).
We look forward to seeing you there!
