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First Look at Stephen Spielberg’s Tintin
Stephen Spielberg‘s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has a star studded cast, with faces like Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Cary Elwes, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. But even with...
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Microsoft Announces New 3D Facial Modeling System That Is The Most Advanced Yet
It is easy to notice that renditions of the human form in computer generated images are becoming more and more realistic. Even so, researchers at Microsoft have taken 3D modeling further than ever...
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Andy Serkis Wants More Award Recognition for Motion-Capture Actors - Consider...
Andy Serkis has had quite the prolific career as a motion-capture actor. Perhaps most famous for playing Gollum in Lord of the Rings (as well as the upcoming The Hobbit(es)), he’s also taken turns as...
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Will the Oscars Recognize Motion-Capture In Its Animation Category? - Insidery
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka The Oscar People) is currently trying to figure out if a handful of animated movies coming out — namely Steven Spielberg‘s The Adventures of...
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More Eligible Animated Films in 2011 Means More Oscar Nominees - and let it...
Last year, only 15 animated films were eligible for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, so there were only three nominees (winner Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Illusionist). But...
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Andy Serkis, Motion-Capture Acting And The Oscars - And I'll Form the Head!
Andy Serkis is certainly a professional at what he does. The English actor now has motion capture roles under his belt for of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tintin, King Kong...
View ArticleMotion Capture Actors Will Replace Inanimate Objects In The Future Of CGI...
A lot of people still find what Lord of the Rings/Planet of the Apes actor Andy Serkis does completely ridiculous. It’s part of the reason there’s so much fuss over the studio campaigning to get him...
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Andy Serkis Is Going To Direct George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Will Probably...
Fresh off his gig as second-unit director for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, motion-capture actor Andy Serkis is ready for the big time. He’ll be directing a retelling of the George Orwell classic,...
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A Motion-Capture Computer Animation Just Might Sway the George Zimmerman...
We generally leave things like the George Zimmerman trial to our friends at Mediaite, but part of the trial caught our attention this morning. The judge heard arguments about whether or not a...
View ArticleWatch This Wild Side-By-Side Comparison Of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes...
When you’re watching a film utilizing motion capture (or performance capture) you usually forget what it looked like when the actor was actually in the shot. Here’s a comparison video from the...
View ArticleNew Images From The Avengers: Age of Ultron Plus Does Andy Serkis Have A...
[See image gallery at www.themarysue.com] [View All on One Page] While we’re busy being excited for the next Marvel Entertainment film to hit theaters, Guardians of the Galaxy, it’s hard to forget...
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Fox Resolute in Getting Andy Serkis an Oscar Nomination For His Dawn of the...
Did you see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes? Do you think Andy Serkis deserves a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the next Academy Awards? Fox does, and they’re going to make sure everyone knows it....
View ArticleActual Dragon-Man Benedict Cumberbatch Smaugs Around On The Floor In The...
I’ve never really considered the motion capture work that must have gone into Benedict Cumberbatch’s role in The Hobbit, but this clip from The Desolation of Smaug DVD is a reminder of the part’s...
View ArticleUltron Is 100% Less Menacing/More Entertaining as James Spader in a Motion...
You may have noticed that Ultron was a bit taller than James Spader, which made his motion capture and interacting with the cast a bit of a challenge. It’s not quite Benedict Cumberbatch writhing...
View ArticleBehold, the Future! Madeline Gannon Taught Her Robot to Respond to Just Her...
We make a lot of jokes about the inevitable robot uprising here, but to be honest, this video of Autodesk Pier 9 artist-in-residence Madeline Gannon demonstrating how she’s working to get robots to...
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Go Behind-The-Scenes With Gillian Anderson on Star Citizen
To be honest, I hadn’t heard much about Star Citizen until I heard about the names attached to the project–Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies and Gillian Anderson (among many, many other...
View ArticleCheck Out How Much Lupita Nyong’o Put Into Her Role as Maz Kanata in The...
When Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o took on the role of Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, many of us were disappointed that this talented African actress was being “covered up” by computer...
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First Look at Stephen Spielberg’s Tintin
Stephen Spielberg‘s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has a star studded cast, with faces like Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Cary Elwes, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. But even with...
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Microsoft Announces New 3D Facial Modeling System That Is The Most Advanced Yet
It is easy to notice that renditions of the human form in computer generated images are becoming more and more realistic. Even so, researchers at Microsoft have taken 3D modeling further than ever...
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Andy Serkis Wants More Award Recognition for Motion-Capture Actors - Consider...
Andy Serkis has had quite the prolific career as a motion-capture actor. Perhaps most famous for playing Gollum in Lord of the Rings (as well as the upcoming The Hobbit(es)), he’s also taken turns as...
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