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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vicon has acquired Captive Devices Ltd, a Manchester, U.K.-based maker of head-mounted camera systems for markerless facial ...

When you see Sunday's Oscars telecast, note two glaring omissions. One: The Adventures of Tintin was not nominated in the Best Animated Feature category. Two: How did Andy Serkis not nab a Best Actor ...