This guy is a piece of work. I will be surprised if he can staff his new project with the comments he makes in the press. If you are a digital artist and accept a position on The Jungle Book remake for Warner Brothers, you have no reason to complain about being unappreciated, treated like a wrist or undermined for your efforts. I understand animators do not win Oscars - actors do, but Serkis' understanding of how animation for a feature is created is NIL. I am sure he will be schooled on his directorial debut. The amount of work done on Serkis' performances for all of his "mocrapped" movies will evidently stay under wraps until CG artist create a accurate behind the scenes documentary of what it takes to translate a captured performance of an actor into a believable performance on a digital puppet.
Quote below from io9
"It's a given that they absolutely copy [the performance] to the letter, to the point in effect what they are doing is painting digital makeup onto actors' performances. It's that understanding which has changed as much as anything."
More about his perspective on an animator's role on a mo-capped film at Cartoon Brew.
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