The Vancouver Film School (VFS) has partnered with Beyond Capture Studios in the city to offer training on performance capture in its 3D Animation & Visual Effects program.

The new semester-long course makes VFS the first animation school to include an industry-level performance capture experience in its curriculum, according to a news release.

Students will be given a motion capture studio experience, allowing them to work on AAA video game projects once they graduate. They’ll end the term with a shoot at Beyond Capture Studios. Performance capture will also be incorporated into VFS’s acting curriculum.

The course was developed by VFS’s senior instructor for embodied process, Charles Douglas, and 3D animation and visual effects instructor, Arthur Gonzales.

Gonzales said in a statement that the VFS course “is unique in that it aligns its curriculum closely with a state-of-the-art mocap facility that is purposed primarily to provide professional service to the industry.”

VFS is home to Beyond Capture Studios, which is billed as one of the largest performance capture studios in North America and has 32,000-cubic-foot motion capture facility onsite as well as leading-edge technology.