For motion capture, performances of the Kinect can broadly be evaluated in terms of the functionalities such as the depth measured by a sensor and body part positions estimated by motion capture solutions.
OPM's Meikleham was put off by Delsin's arrogance and was underwhelmed with the story, but he was impressed by the quality of the motion capture performances.
French developer Quantic Dream even motion captured performances from Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe for Beyond: Two Souls, further bridging the gap between games and films.
Serkis, then, is the doyen of motion-capture performance.
How is motion-capture performance for games distinct from stage or screen?
Sharlto Copley's turn as Chappie is surely the most engaging motion-capture performance since Andy Serkis's Gollum.
Zalewski asked if Andy Serkis deserved an Oscar for his motion-capture performance in "The Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
But it has yet to nominate any actor for a motion-capture performance, in spite of campaigns by fans (not to mention film studios).
It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.
