INNOVATION Motion-capture performance. For the character of Gollum, director Peter Jackson and his team used motion sensors to record actor Andy Serkis' movements, and then digitally superimposed the creature's frame and facial expressions.
POSITIVE IMPACT Serkis will play King Kong for Jackson's 2005 remake using the same process.
NEGATIVE IMPACT Allowed Tom Hanks to play multiple characters, all of them creepy-looking, in this fall's The Polar Express
EW GRADE B
Posted Sep 24, 2004
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