In the lead-up to James Cameron’s first two “Avatar” movies, the process of performance capture was mostly obscured. The magic trick of how living, breathing performers became majestic alien creatures ...

It’s difficult to explain just how awe-inspiring it was to watch Avatar on the big screen, for the first time, back in 2009. The film didn’t just transport audiences to Pandora; it leveraged the ...

When Baldur’s Gate 3 exploded into a cultural juggernaut, much of its acclaim went to the writing, the player freedom, and the unforgettable characters. But at Fan Expo Canada during The Voices of ...

Joe Letteri remembers the day, almost exactly 20 years ago, when he first glimpsed the wondrous world of “Avatar.” Letteri, the pioneering senior visual-effects supervisor at Wētā FX in New Zealand, ...

Coming off the advances of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water," Wētā FX's technology hits the road to produce a very different type of performance capture film. Dating back to “Rise of the ...

Andy Serkis remembered the first time he read George Orwell's "Animal Farm." It was around the same time that he first read J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" ("I can't remember which one I'd read first," ...

Facial animation and performance capture represent a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. This discipline focuses on ...