Andy Serkis: The Biggest Star In Film You Have Not Seen

Andy Serkis: The Biggest Star In Film You Have Not Seen

Andy Serkis has had roles in mega-blockbuster that earned more than $ 2.5 billion worldwide. Is the main character in a major film opening this weekend, and this winter will appear in a new 3D adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. And yet, it is likely that if you met him on the street who have no idea that it was a movie star. Because usually you never see his face.

Serkis is one of the leading players in the field of "performance capture". It is the process where the movements of an actor is recorded in three dimensions and used to create the animation of a totally digital. Serkis has been innovative when it represents the computer-generated Gollum in "Lord of the Rings" and takes the form of another level in the new movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."

Born in London, Andy Serkis began his acting career on stage. It 'appeared on British television in 1990, and took a few film roles, such as Mike Leigh's Oscar-winning "traps". But his career has taken a new and unexpected, such as Peter Jackson, cast his "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Serkis was hired for a mere three weeks of work gives a voice to the animated Gollum. It was a five-year effort Serkis actually created character movements and expressions. To make it work would Serkis on set in costume to act on each scene with costar Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. While other players might shoot the scene without providing Serkis pure background, where the animation will then be able to layer. Later, Serkis would recreate his performance on a motion capture stage wearing a suit covered separate points reflecting infrared cameras would turn into a 3D "puppet" of the computer.

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Using a talented actor based on the digital creation, "The Lord of the Rings" has revolutionized the way the characters could be used in a CG film. Serkis has made such a layer, moving performance, many critics have said that the Oscar rules should be changed so that effective candidates for digital characters. Serkis face was completely out of the trilogy, though. She shows the camera aperture a short film Smeagol third, the same character before the crowds was the power of the ring.

Serkis Peter Jackson met in 2005 to play another role performance capture, the character of 25 meters in the title of "King Kong". To prepare, Serkis studied gorillas in captivity at London Zoo, and then visited Rwanda to see the animals up close in their natural habitat. For the filming of the scenes between the giant gorilla and Naomi Watts, Serkis was on a scaffold for Watts have eyes to connect with, and his voice altered electronically so that you can create booming sounds Kong living on the plateau.

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Since his success in films by Peter Jackson, Serkis is seen in several live-action film. He played in Tesla's assistant Christopher Nolan "The Prestige" and was nominated for a Golden Globe for the HBO film "Longford." But this weekend he's back as the leader - and completely CG - characters like Caesar, the chimpanzee in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Unlike the previous "Planet of the Apes" films, all monkeys all created in the computer, not with makeup.

With advances in capture technology performance, Serkis no longer have to repeat his performance at a soundstage bar away from other players. For the first time, WETA Digital - the same company that created the effects of Gollum, Kong, and foreigners of "Avatar" - could save Serkis work with an external location outside a studio. Serkis was able to film scenes with stars James Franco and Freida Pinto, while wearing a suit that followed his movements, and he wore headgear with a camera pointed at her face to record his every move subtle and Map on digital chimpanzee. While the computer was erased shooting Serkis and Caesar set in its place.

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Serkis is to capture the performance. In December, will play Captain Haddock, Steven Spielberg, of all the CGI film "The Adventures of Tintin", based on books internationally popular comic book. And his career is about the point of departure, when he resumed the role of Gollum, the adaptation to two films by Peter Jackson of "The Hobbit" coming in 2012 and '13.
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" opens in theaters on Friday. Watch exclusive video showing how Serkis, Caesar was the chimpanzee below.

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