Disney's "Big Hero 6" was the big winner tonight at the 13th annual VES Awards, sweeping all five of the animated feature categories.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 2/4/2015
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 7/7/2014
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/8/2014
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 7/19/2011
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By: Jerry Beck,
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 7/7/2014
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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.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/8/2014
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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.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 7/19/2011
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No one turns to the Wall Street Journal for insightful animation coverage, but that’s still no excuse for this egregious error in an article about the use of motion capture on Rise of the Planet of the Apes:
The film, which follows the development of the chimp Caesar from baby to adult, takes advantage of “motion capture,” a technology the visual-effects company Weta Digital Ltd. first developed for the 2009 blockbuster “Avatar” and has evolved one step further.
The sentence is written in such a way as to imply that Weta developed motion capture, which it clearly did not. Motion capture is a major filmmaking technology that has been used in dozens of films and has been utilized for decades. A newspaper claiming that it was invented in 2009 by Weta defies comprehension.
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