Part of pursuing that edge has been the development of Digital Domain’s proprietary software Masquerade. This new system uses images of the actor’s face from a helmet-mounted camera and automatically ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've read about “Avatar,” you know by now that it's the future of movies. And if you've seen it, you know that the future of movies apparently looks a lot like the present of movies — big, ...

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.

We've watched the gameplay. We've heard the terrifying noises. We've seen the scary sights. Now, in the final part of our peek behind the scenes of Glen Schofield's upcoming horror sci-fi adventure ...