Over the last few decades, performance capture has gone from being a specialist tool used for very specific projects to becoming a key part of how films, TV shows and games are made. The expectations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ubisoft has opened a new “world-class performance capture studio” in Toronto that will work on future projects, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The facility is state-of-the-art and aims to “create ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weta Digital Reaches New Performance-Capture Heights With ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Ever since the debut of "Rise of the ...

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 ...

One of the ways game developers add realism to character motion is through the use of motion capture technology. An actor dons a specialized suit and performs motions, and these motions are captured ...