Performance-capture acting, and the thesps who’ve tried it, are earning more respect these days. “Avatar” rode performance-capture to generally stellar reviews, record-breaking grosses and rare levels ...

For more than 15 years, Andy Serkis has been Hollywood's go-to performance-capture guy, playing such digitally enhanced characters as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series, Caesar in the recent ...

In the past few months, as the COVID-19 pandemic took over even trivial aspects of our daily lives, the games industry did its best to carry on as usual. But many areas in games were just not able to ...

Matt Reeves discusses how his VFX supervisor on "War for the Planet of the Apes" helped add realism and emotion to Andy Serkis's performance. Letteri has won four Oscars for his instrumental work in ...

Brett Ineson, President and CTO of Animatrik Film Design, on how the evolution of motion and performance capture affects storytelling from Hollywood blockbusters, to AAA games, and immersive metaverse ...

War for the Planet of the Apes is receiving enormous praise for the film’s compelling story – the continuing battle between apes and humans – as well as for the facial and body performance capture ...

The AAA games industry has a clear interest in adopting more cinematic techniques. The most lauded titles of recent years — God of War (2018) and Red Dead Redemption 2 are among them — all seem like ...

In the early 20th century, star of stage and screen Lon Chaney became known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces" thanks to his ground-breaking and transformative make-up techniques. His disguises, as ...

Facial animation and performance capture represent a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. This discipline focuses on ...

Andy Serkis has created a new performance-capture character for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition as part of a larger content deal that his The Imaginarium has struck with Magic Leap. By Carolyn ...