{"id":52781,"date":"2012-01-16T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=52781"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:25:57","slug":"andy-serkis-talks-performance-capture-including-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/16\/52781-andy-serkis-talks-performance-capture-including-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Serkis talks performance capture, including The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Animation\/special effects expert Bill Desowitz has posted an interview with Andy Serkis on <em>Indiewire<\/em>. In it Serkis talks about new performance-capture techniques that have been developed by Weta since he played Gollum in <em>The Lord of the Rings.<\/em> One paragraph describes his scene with Bilbo in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Indeed, that&#8217;s what happened when Serkis revisited Gollum after a 12-year absence for &#8220;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&#8221; (December 14). Shooting live on set provided a more dynamic sense of play in his scene with the young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman). &#8220;The way we approached the scene was very much to treat it like a chamber-theater piece, where we could experiment and try different things out,&#8221; Serkis explained. &#8220;Of course, the other significant change now is that we&#8217;re using facial capture, so my facial muscles are driving the facial muscles of the digital puppet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/immersed-in-movies-andy-serkis-talks-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-the-hobbit-and-sequels\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation\/special effects expert Bill Desowitz has posted an interview with Andy Serkis on Indiewire. In it Serkis talks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serkis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-dJj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52781"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52792,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52781\/revisions\/52792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}