We expect that moviegoers will be as impressed as we are with the film’s visual effects and anti-captivity messaging, and we hope other producers follow suit. Highly intelligent, sensitive chimpanzees deserve better than to be treated as if they were props for our amusement, and we applaud the team behind the Planet of the Apes films for its stunning CGI characters. War portrays apes in a much different way, reminding audiences, “Not all heroes are human.” Jane Goodall, may become extinct within our lifetime. Inaccurate portrayals of chimpanzees-such as when they’re used as human caricatures or displayed in unnatural environments-also have a negative impact on the species, which is endangered and which, according to Dr. In order to force young apes to perform on cue, physical and psychological abuse are common. Chimpanzees and orangutans used in entertainment are typically taken from their mothers shortly after birth-leaving both mother and baby with lifelong emotional scars. There is nothing glamorous about showbiz for primates. Vanity Fair calls his performance a “truly dazzling feat,” saying, “In War, Caesar experiences grief and anger and hope and other big feelings, all rendered beautifully in a disarmingly effective marriage between actor and pixel.” Thanks to revolutionary visual effects, Serkis-who is well known for his CGI portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy-transforms into Caesar, leader of the apes. Can’t wait for out on Friday! /cS4PmmXZKi #WarForThePlanet’s amazing CGI is proof no one needs to use live wild animals to tell a story. The visual effects used in the film are so spot-on and lifelike that audience members won’t even know that the apes aren’t real.
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Artists iterated in this space until they were confident they had captured the full depth and complexity of the actor’s performance, only then moving from a digital Brolin to digital Thanos.In 2011, the visual effects team behind Rise of the Planet of the Apes broke new ground, using CGI to create apes who delivered a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence-no real apes were used during filming. Now, six years later, War is proving that the capabilities of CGI are only getting better and better. Infinity War represented Weta Digital’s first appearance of their ‘actor puppet’, where the facial solve occurs not straight onto the final digital character but first onto an intermediary stage, in this case a digital copy of Brolin. Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame (2018/2019)Īlong with Digital Domain, Weta Digital translated Josh Brolin’s performance capture into a CG Thanos for Infinity War and, a year later, for Endgame. With each Apes film, new developments came along, such as the use of wireless mocap cameras and HMCs which were smaller yet higher in resolution, along with refinements in Weta’s facial and muscle tools and fur simulation techniques. The big advancement made here was taking the motion capture out on location, often in sometimes challenging conditions that included rain and snow. The Hobbit films came around the same time that Weta Digital embarked on the new Planet of the Apes films, where the studio worked with a host of actors in using performance capture to drive and inform the final CG primates. A new facial solver implementing the facial action coding system (FACS) took the facial performance and used them to drive Weta Digital’s CG facial puppet, the same puppet ultimately used for keyframe animation. This was actually the same system that had been used for body motion capture on Gollum, but reconfigured and ‘shrunk down’ to work with facial markers on Andy Serkis (who had to stay within a one meter cube to enable accurate capture). King Kong (2005)įor the first time, the studio utilized facial motion capture to drive the facial performance. The final result was a blend of this motion capture of the actor and keyframing by artists, always closely observing Serkis’ original performance. Additional body-only motion capture of Serkis in an optical marker suit was done separately on a motion capture volume installed at Weta Digital (which has been running ever since). Andy Serkis, with whom Weta would collaborate on multiple projects to come, performed Gollum on set with the other actors, often just in a skin-tight plain colored-suit. With Gollum, Weta Digital had to deliver a main character that talked and had to interact with other characters.
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