


They're ill-informed that it is nothing more than acting. I think there is a woeful lack of understanding from the acting community. What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance. On whether performance capture actors should be considered for Oscars And you see this ripple goes down its spine." This became really interesting to me because you watch a cat throwing up a fur ball and it's like the whole body writhes from the tip of the neck to the tip of the tail and convulses. "I looked to one of my cats, Diz, who came in while I was working on the character and coughed up a fur ball. I had to find a voice that sounded like someone 'golluming.' I wanted this sense that his body is controlled by so that it's an involuntary action that was making him sound like this. A lot of his guilt is trapped in his throat. For me, it's linked entirely to physicality and through the centering of an emotion around a voice. He later helps lead his species in an uprising against the humans who keep thousands of apes like him in cages. Caesar, who was raised from infancy by human handlers, has a growing self-awareness that he is somehow different from people who raised him. In his latest film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Serkis plays yet another virtual character: Caesar, the super-intelligent leader of the apes. He also played the title role in Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong remake, worked with video game developers on the 2007 PlayStation game Heavenly Sword and will appear in the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin. In The Lord of the Rings, he supplied the voice, facial expressions, body language and physical movements for his character Gollum in front of a green screen, so that visual effects artists could later animate his performance. Actor Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Gollum in Peter Jackson's upcoming two-part film, The Hobbit.Īctor Andy Serkis is Hollywood's go-to actor for playing computer-generated characters.
