Sentences with phrase «motion capture movies»

That's not to say that adults won't enjoy it, but it doesn't have that soul touching aspect that you can find in animated or motion capture movies of today.

Not exact matches

«We took little subtle nuances from the original movie with our facial motion capture and put them into the performance,» Nelson said.

Though all three movies have been praised for its strong storytelling and incredible motion - capture technology.

Johnson said the idea is to train the students in film production that relies on computer technology to improve on current uses like motion - capture to create movies like «Avatar» and video games like «Tron.»

He also took into account the primary animation tool utilized for in each movie, for example, cel animation, computer animation, motion capture, and clay or puppet animation.

The volume of the movie was shot on location with motion capture and witness cameras (which provide 3 - D reference points to help create 3 - D computer - generated characters).

But George (played with motion capture by Jason Liles) still holds his own in the monkey - movie kingdom.

There are a few beguiling moments in Holy Motors, particularly a martial - arts sequence and an erotic dance while Mr. Oscar is dressed in a motion - capture body suit, but the road between those moments is so strewn with stalled ideas that audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.

Andy Serkis uses motion - capture to put a darker spin on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book in the trailer for his upcoming movie, Mowgli.

Could the apes» evolving linguistic ability in the rebooted sci - fi movie franchise provide Andy Serkis with another opportunity to become the first motion - capture Oscar nominee, asks Ben Child

Although the Mad Titan Thanos has been ominously lurking in the background of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Joss Whedon's first Avengers movie, Infinity War will finally move the character into focus and Josh Brolin is charged with bringing the motion - capture figure to life on the big screen, having made brief appearances in previous movies.

It's not just kind of latex and a costume; it would be a motion - capture performance of the monster — I can give away maybe not too much by saying there's more than one in our version — and then I would go to Europe, shoot the movie, do scenes with the real actors and I would be able to see the motion - captured monster in real time due to SimulCam, so yes that is our technological VFX paradigm for Frankenstein.»

Adapted from John Milton's epic poem, the movie will see Bradley Cooper stepping into a motion capture suit to play Lucifer, one of God's chief archangels.

The supporting cast includes an outstanding Daniel Kaluuya («Get Out»), a rare on - screen appearance by motion - capture master Andy Serkis with his Tolkien co-star Martin Freeman as a CIA agent, Forest Whitaker as a priest, Winston Duke as the leader of on of Wakanda's five tribes, and «This is Us» star Sterling K. Brown as a guy you're better off not knowing too much about until you see the movie, which I hope you do, more than once.

His specialty is motion - capture — «mo - cap» in Hollywood lingo — the technology that allows Serkis to give Caesar facial expressions and body movements that Roddy McDowall never could have dreamed of in the original «Apes» movies.

Sure it's got James Franco, but the real star of the movie is Andy Serkis, whose motion - capture computer - enhanced performance as a smart ape named Caesar just won him an acting nomination alongside actors like Nick Nolte and Christopher Plummer, who didn't act standing in front of a greenscreen in a bodysuit.

Golden Globe nominee Andy Serkis told us the most uncomfortable part of wearing the motion capture suits (complete with Velcro balls and helmet straps) used to create the movie magic.

In fact, the only real story in story mode is in the prerendered movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.

There is also some great fight choreography on - hand throughout the movie, especially during the escape and final showdown, granted much of it looks like a video game, but the character animation is all motion - captured, and Liebesman stages these sequence well.

The movie takes about 40 minutes just to crank its plot into motion: John Reid (Armie Hammer), who will soon emerge as the Lone Ranger, wants to capture a sadistic outlaw (William Fichtner) and bring him to justice.

Of course, the entire pitch for the movie was predicated on him returning, and he even voiced and motion - captured for the Blur Studio and Tim Miller produced pitch video.

Robert Zemeckis makes a great return to live action after some time of doing motion capture - based movies.

It is «Life on Mars: The Full Motion - Capture Experience», which allows you to watch the movie while the actors» suited performance plays via a picture - in - picture window.

Taking in $ 21.4 million in North America and $ 17.6 M elsewhere, Mars put up numbers comparable to a Winnie the Pooh movie, but as effects - intensive motion capture, it cost about five times as much as one of those humble traditional cartoons.

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Of the many highlights in «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» the movie finds its showstopper in the opinionated droid K - 2SO (performed in motion capture by Alan Tudyk).

Of course, if you really want to be a full - fledged 21st - century movie, it's best to focus less on actors in favor of motion - captured, fully digital (and endlessly manipulable) creations.

The big news with this blockbuster adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved fairytale isn't that Steven Spielberg is making his second motion - capture animated movie following 2011's «Tintin», or that he's hauled in a super-impressive cast including Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant, plus Bill Hader, Rebecca Hall and Penelope Wilton as the Queen.

Its motion - capture CGI renders the characters in rubbery, apple - cheeked versions that sometimes slide queasily into the uncanny valley; its script (written by the dream team of Doctor Who show - runner Steven Moffat, Hot Fuzz writer - director Edgar Wright, and Attack The Block writer - director Joe Cornish) is an of - the - moment action movie, little more than a lengthy series of big setpieces, crammed with fights and chases.

There's an outstanding cast doing fine work all around — Clarke, Oldman, Russell all run circles around the largely disengaged Franco and Freida Pinto from «Rise» — but it's a testament to the beautiful Weta VFX that the movie still belongs to the apes and the motion capture actors breathing them to life.

Specifically, cult TV favorites Mads Mikkelsen and Alan Tudyk have both joined the movie's roster of talent in as - yet - unannounced roles, with Tudyk apparently reusing his old I Robot motion - capture skills as some sort of digital creature.

Under the renewal of their deal, IMAX will be showcasing the previously announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this December's In the Heart of the Sea, as well as a slew of upcoming movies like Guy Ritchie's spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ritchie's currently filming King Arthur movie, David Yates's 2016 adventure film Tarzan, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins, the thriller Geostorm, and more.

Instead of a large and complicated costume like the one that was used in the 2005 and 2007 «Fantastic Four» movies, Bell will be motion captured for his performance.

The pitch This motion - capture adventure is more a remake of the Disney movie than a return to Rudyard Kipling's original stories.

Andy Serkis, known for his motion - capture roles in blockbuster movies like the Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes series, and playing the titular character in King Kong, said that he has sex four or five times a day.

On top of all those, other big movies opening in 2017: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, Pixar's new Dia De Los Muertos movie Coco, a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie Dunkirk, the video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

The giant fire demon Surtur (voiced by Clancy Brown and performed, via motion - capture, by Waititi) has imprisoned Thor, leaving him to dangle helplessly from a rope while he villain - splains (Bond movie — style) the prophecy in which Surtur destroys the realm of Asgard.

In the midst of a deluge of high - concept, multigenre, motion - capture movies — in 3 - D!

We cast our lot with heroic Caesar (Andy Serkis, in a motion - capture performance that is one of the great silent - movie turns, ever), who's pushing against a Cheney - manqué in Koba (Toby Kebbell).

When: December 21st Why: As someone who isn't a particularly big fan of Steven Spielberg or the art of motion - capture movies, it might seem strange to admit that I'm actually looking forward to «The Adventures of Tintin.»

That critique comes to the fore in a brilliant, Buñuelian performance - art sequence that will lodge itself in your brain for days, built around a terrifying turn by Terry Notary, whose animal / creature motion - capture work you may have seen in «Kong: Skull Island» and the recent «Planet of the Apes» movies.

With movies like this one, the Oscars and other award shows need to add motion capture acting to their categories.

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In this cinematic telling, the legendary warrior Beowulf (voiced and acted in motion capture by Ray Winstone, The Departed) is brought in and implored for assistance from the goodly King Hrothgar (Hopkins, Fracture) in order to battle the dreaded and physically powerful demon named Grendel (Glover, Epic Movie), who has been tearing up the people of Heorot mercilessly for some time now.

Before his current motion capture kick, director Robert Zemeckis made movies in which actors were seen as they were.

On the other hand, your honor, we did see franchise items that knew what they were doing, and did what they did with confidence and a little class: «Captain America: Civil War,» for example, or director Jon Favreau's live - action / motion - capture hybrid «The Jungle Book,» a movie people loved largely because they didn't hate it.

Hayley Atwell has sparked much speculation after posting a photo to her instagram of her face covered in motion - capture dots, leading some to assume that it's for an appearance as Peggy Carter, alongside seemingly every other actor to have appeared in a Marvel movie for Infinity War and Avengers 4.

On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge (which served as a key human / ape battleground in Rise) is Caesar (played again by Andy Serkis via motion capture), who since the last movie has built a thriving community of fellow apes and led them to a harmonious existence, tucked away in the towering redwoods of Marin County.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are fan of animated family fun with loads of action OR you just want to see how far motion - capture technology has come

THE king of motion capture Andy Serkis (he of Gollum fame) has his own production company specialising in creating animated anthropomorphic creatures for the movies.