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Is the great Robert Zemeckis Mo-Cap experiment finally over?
Before 2004, Robert Zemeckis was best known as the much-loved, popcorn-movie director behind Castaway, Forrest Gump, and Back to the Future. Between 2004 and now, he’s been the guy trying to make...
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Robert Zemeckis’ empire is crumbling!
Since finishing Castaway in 2000, Robert Zemeckis has been on a mission to make motion-capture animation happen. People hated it when he first finished Polar Express in 2004, and they’re only casually...
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Can Spielberg save mo-cap? Full-Length Trailer for Tintin.
After the jump, we’ve got the first full trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, a collaboration between Steven Spielberg (directing), Peter Jackson, and digital effects...
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Planet of the Apes still not making a great case for performance capture
Didja catch our clever reference? Didja didja huh huh?After the jump, you can watch a new clip from Rise of the Planet of the Apes (opening August 5th), introduced by Andy Serkis, who plays the guy in...
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Two More “Apes” Clips Lumber Through The Uncanny Valley
“Let’s see. We got soda, purple stuff. Sunny D! All right!” *Did you love the amazing realism of the clip Vince posted earlier this week, where Alzheimer’s disease means you forget how forks work, apes...
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New Clip From “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Kicks The Helicopter
20th Century Fox showed new Rise of the Planet of the Apes footage at San Diego Comic-Con and wisely put it online immediately so we wouldn’t have to post a buttcam bootleg. The audience in Hall H saw...
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Hyperbole Check: People seem a little too impressed with mo-cap
Mo-Cap: It Gives Chimps Souls! By Vince Mancini Rise of the Planet of the Apes opened to $54 million domestically and rave reviews over the weekend, with critics describing the motion-capture effects...
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New trailer for Aventures of Tintin, that *other* Spielberg movie
Steven Spielberg slaps his name on a lot of random crap like Transformers and Cowboys and Aliens and Real Steel, but when it comes to movies he’s actually directed, there hasn’t been one since Indy 4...
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James Franco demands Andy Serkis be considered the Che Guevara of chimps
YOU ARE A MONKEY, DEREK!With Oscar season about to heat up, James Franco has written an article for Deadline in which he argues that his be-ping-pong-balled co-star, Andy Serkis, deserves the same...
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Andy Serkis Takes BBC on a Tour of Gollum University
“This are the censors that create a virtual skeleton of Karl’s body, and these are the lumpy man tits that keep him from getting proper acting roles.”Classically-trained British thespian Andy Serkis is...
View ArticleThe Hulk Will Be Motion-Capture, 3D
Mark Ruffalo, the third guy to play the Hulk in a decade and officially making the role more cursed than Superman, has recently weighed in on how, exactly, this whole Hulk thing is going to work....
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Look At Benedict Cumberbatch Mo-Capping Smaug In This Ridiculously Handsome...
I loved The Lord of the Rings, but am jaded on The Hobbit. What I really am getting sick of is motion capturing performances. If you know anything about illustration, there really is no need for...
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Here Are The Best Bits Of Cherished Advice From Fox CEO Jim Gianopulos’ USC...
Getty Image The reason I didn’t try hard enough in high school and college is because I didn’t want to be valedictorian. Why? I didn’t want to give that big speech in front of the entire class. The...
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VFX Artists Are Starting To Get Pissed At Andy Serkis
Fox Andy Serkis has been on a nationwide tour at least since the last ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies trying to win respect for actors who do motion-capture work. It makes sense from his perspective – he’s...
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‘The Witcher 3′ Has 16 Hours Of Mo-Cap Data Just For The Sex Scenes
CD Projekt The Witcher has always had sex as a clumsy, awkward part of the story, and usually comes in for a few critical brickbats as a result. So, this time, CD Projekt is trying to get ahead of the...
View ArticleSCIENCES PROVES EVEN MONKEYS HATE ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Even a monkey could tell you Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture movies — Beowulf, Polar Express, A Christmas Carol — are creepy. It’s dumb; they don’t look like people, they don’t look like cartoons,...
View ArticleNOW YOU CAN MAKE CREEPY MO CAP MOVIES AT HOME
Good news. NaturalPoint was at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco showing off their OptiTrack motion capture system, along with their virtual camera system which they plan to release...
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