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 ...

Ever since the debut of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” in 2011, Hollywood’s visual effects community and mainstream moviegoers alike have been enthralled by the breakthrough digital motion-capture ...

Fire and Jae' has released a 'Performance Capture Technology Behind' video focusing on performance capture technology. The ...

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 ...

James Cameron discusses how they used performance capture to create Jake Sully and the rest of the Na'vi for Avatar: Way of ...

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 ...

When Baldur’s Gate 3 exploded into a cultural juggernaut, much of its acclaim went to the writing, the player freedom, and the unforgettable characters. But at Fan Expo Canada during The Voices of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tue, October 6, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC In that 2004 New York Times interview, Zemeckis singled out the Glacier Gulch sequence as a key example of the greater creative possibilities offered by performance ...

When the filmmakers behind "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" settled on virtual simians rather than people in monkey suits for their lower primates, their first casting task became obvious: get Andy.