"Avatar" director James Cameron on making "Fire and Ash," explaining performance capture in the age of AI and why it's too ...

In the lead-up to James Cameron's first two "Avatar" movies, the process of performance capture was mostly obscured. The magic trick of how living, breathing performers became majestic alien creatures ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Andy Serkis says he’s “hanging by a thread” in the run-up to the release of his directorial debut Breathe. Starring Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield in the true story of a couple fighting polio, it’s a ...

Cameron’s movies have always been at the forefront of cinema technology. The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Titanic all pushed the boundaries of digital effects, while Avatar redefined the ...

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 ...