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 ...

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 battle lines between who should take credit for a CGI based performance are being drawn. Should it be the performance capture actor, or the CGI artists and animators? It is a question that will ...

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

‘Breathe’ director and performance capture pioneer Andy Serkis has revealed that Tom Hardy’s role in the Spider-Man spin-off ‘Venom’ will be achieved using performance capture. It’s the first time the ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Cameron, the director of some of the film industry's biggest blockbusters, quipped in 2009 that, "Actors don't do motion; they do emotion." He was at San Diego's Comicon at the time, talking ...

Samsung's ISOCELL Plus technology allows CMOS image sensors to capture more light, significantly increasing light sensitivity and colour fidelity. "In film production, our method would allow a ...

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 ...