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.
Andy Serkis’ newest lie: animators aren’t part of the production process for the characters he performs.
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.
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.