Looney Tunes Film ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up’ To World Premiere At Annecy
Other Warner Bros. highlights include first-looks at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Creature Commandos, and the reboot of The Amazing World of Gumball.
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It’s ‘The Jungle Book’…Again. Here’s The First Trailer For Andy Serkis’ ‘Mowgli’
It’s “The Jungle Book”…again.
The Evolution of Snoke In ‘The Last Jedi’: From Andy Serkis To Animation
A look at how ILM and Andy Serkis’ Snoke continued to evolve during production on the latest “Star Wars” film.
The Twenty Most-Read Cartoon Brew Stories of 2017
Here’s a look back at the pieces that captivated the animation community in 2017.
Actors Shouldn’t Take All The Credit For Performance Capture, Says ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Director
“[It’s] misguided to even consider nominating an actor for a performance unless you’re also gonna nominate the part of the vfx team behind it and the vfx supervisor because that is a joint effort.”
This Award Season, Andy Serkis Has Found New Ways To Disrespect Animators
Andy Serkis’ newest lie: animators aren’t part of the production process for the characters he performs.
From Performance Capture To Creature: How The Apes Were Created In ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
An overview of Weta Digital’s process in turning performance capture into final animation in the newest ‘Apes’ film.
Netflix’s ‘Castlevania’ and Adult Swim’s ‘Apollo Gauntlet’ Headline 2nd Annual Rooster Teeth Animation Festival
The second annual Rooster Teeth Animation Festival will feature leading creators of internet animation.
Why the Character Animation in ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Was Done Differently Than You Think
Kong and his Skull Island friends and foes receive their own special brand of animation in the new Jordan Vogt-Roberts film.
First Look: Disney’s CGI-Filled ‘Jungle Book’ Reboot
Jon Favreau’s dark reboot screens like a terrorized tale drained of humor, compared to Wolfgang Reitherman’s amiable 1967 feature.
Andy Serkis Takes His Oscar Campaign To The People
He’ll stop asking for an Oscar when he gets an Oscar.
‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ Opens With $18 Million, But The Real Money Is Elsewhere
Like its predecessor, “Planes: Fire & Rescue” opened in third place at the U.S. box office. The new film, however, grossed only $18 million, or 19% less than the opening of the first “Planes.”
Andy Serkis Is Giving More Credit to the Animators Now
Actor Andy Serkis may have changed his tune somewhat from earlier this spring when he insisted that animators do nothing but add ‘digital makeup’ on top of his acting.
‘Entertainment Weekly’ Caves In To Andy Serkis, Replaces the Term ‘Animation’ With ‘Digital Makeup’
“Entertainment Weekly” has published a piece on the upcoming “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” without once mentioning the terms ‘animation,’ ‘motion capture,’ or ‘performance capture.’
‘Lord of the Rings’ Animation Supervisor Randall William Cook Speaks Out On Andy Serkis
Our post on Andy Serkis’s inflammatory rhetoric about the limited role of animators on his motion capture performances generated a robust, often heated, discussion in the comments. By far, the most informative comment was provided by 3-time Oscar winner Randall William Cook, who was the animation supervisor and designer at WETA on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was released between 2001 and 2003.
Andy Serkis Does Everything, Animators Do Nothing, Says Andy Serkis
In his never-ending quest to be recognized as a serious thespian, character actor Andy Serkis continues to minimize the role of the animators who make his performances possible. With each interview he gives, Serkis seems to do more and more of the work, and the animators less and less. About the only thing Serkis doesn’t do at this point is build his own motion capture rigs and provide his own craft services.
Andy Serkis to direct Mo-Cap “Animal Farm”
Performance-capture actor Andy Serkis (Tintin, Lord of the Rings, Rise of The Planet Of The Apes), who recently directed second unit on …
