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| Andy Serkis at Comic Con 2011, photographed by Gerald Geronimo |
Animators hate Motion Capture. We hate it because it threatens us,
threatens to replace what we do so carefully and painstakingly and
slowly with fast, inexpensive, automated technology. I first heard about
it way back in 1987 on the set of "
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
when it was rumoured that a technology existed whereby a computer could
capture an actor's motion and express it instantly as a piece of 3D
animation. Well, that'll never catch on, I thought (or hoped, more
likely).
Phil Nibbelink, one of the most talented animators on
The Rabbit, called Motion Capture "the battle cry of the untalented". How we laughed.
