![]() With Weta Digital's more robust "performance capture" system used in The Hobbit, Serkis (as Gollum) and Martin Freeman (as Bilbo) performed the "Riddles in the Dark" scene from beginning to end on the same set. Once called merely "motion capture," the process on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now a more sophisticated technique than what was used on The Lord of the Rings a decade ago.įor the Rings trilogy, which was shot on film, Serkis acted his scenes on a separate sound stage and his digital performance was merged with the live action actors in post-production. Serkis is now recognized as an innovating pioneer of performance capture acting. Not that I tried to challenge Serkis to a Gollum-off. So it seemed appropriate to be speaking with the very incarnation of Gollum just as my own voice was sounding a bit Gollum-y. When I had a chance to interview Andy Serkis last week, I was still in the midst of a nasty cold. ![]()
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