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A pioneer?

posted 10 years ago by BeatLedzepPinkfloyd
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People keep complaining how this man doesn't have an oscar, not even a nod. Who cares, neither does Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix, Julianne Moore, and Edward.

I remember thinking that when Rise of the Planet of the Apes he must be tired of being typecast as a motion capture actor. In a few decades he'll be hailed as the Godfather of Performance Capture and that's a bit more prestigious, in my eyes, than an award. Shoot, Kubrick's only oscar is for visual effects..

I am Jack's cold sweat.

[–] Goatlips 10 years ago

He's not a pioneer of anything.
When they made Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, or whatever it was called, in the early '80s, or whenever it was, they had an ape actor who cornered the market, even though any decent young actor should be able to ape the mannerisms of an ape.
He certainly wasn't the pioneer of motion capture either - that's been used for video games for decades.
I'd guess 99% of what you see in a Serkis CGI character is pure CGI using state of the art software. Not even the world's greatest parkour gymnast could be used for motion capture for an ape's action scenes.
He's just the go-to actor, but countless actors could do it and ones with a gymnastic background could do the motion capture far better.