His Christmas film, The Polar Express (2004), made with the same motion-capture computer animation technique that was used in Mars Needs Moms, received mixed reviews on its release but is now seen by many as a classic.
The motion-capture, computer-animated film is narrated by Tom Hanks, who also provides voices for the young boy and the train conductor.
The idea of using motion capture in computer animation is regarded as a bit like cheating by many computer animators, who take the more painstaking approach of creating and animating each character and adding the nuances of a performance bit by bit.
We even did bits of performance for other companies, including motion capture for computer games.
Early on, PDI considered using motion capture, a computer technique of "tracing" over live action; wisely, it was rejected.
"The Polar Express", which used motion capture and computer graphics to produce an animation whose characters looked almost human, received a critical panning: one reviewer suggested its characters were so frightening the film should be subtitled "The Night of the Living Dead".The difference lay in that one crucial word: almost.
Mr. Cameron, who made the 3-D Imax documentary "Ghosts of the Abyss" in 2003, is using motion capture technology and computer graphics to create realistic characters and fantasy worlds for "Avatar".
Rigged, motion captured, and computer-generated entirely by del Hierro a feat for a man and a computer, as characters' textures alone weighed over a gig each Bildungsroman is awe-inspiring like a teaser trailer for the kind of cerebral CGI film that the uncanny valley proves most audiences aren't ready for yet.
Mr. Avnet put it another way: "We created a different performance of sorts through motion capture, modeling and computer-generated imagery.
McInnerny wore a prosthetic mask with two layers for his transformation scene though the production team's best boy provided motion capture for the computer-generated profile of the appendages coming out of his mouth when this needed to be refilmed and McInnerny was unavailable.
