Heavenly Sword motion capture session with Andy Serkis
by Nick Doerr 
{ Apr 5th 2007 at 7:00PM }
Some of you may know Andy Serkis as the fellow who voiced the beyond-logical-description character Gollum in some movie about rings and lords... Pride and Prejudice, methinks. There were lordly people in there and much exchanging of rings. We kid, naturally. Anyway, it's pretty interesting and entertaining seeing this guy get into character for his role in Heavenly Sword. Reminds me of myself, when I get into character at the start of every single day of my life. Get it? No? It wasn't a joke, you say? Now I'm confused.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dahk @ Apr 5th 2007 7:06PM
Hmmm I can see how this motion capture resulted in what was seen in Heavenly Sword. The thing is, his acting involved a lot of intense staring and his eyes and eyebrows really just don't move that much.
This translates directly into the Heavenly Sword trailer where the facial expressions of the guy Andy Serkis plays isn't very fluid. Sometimes it just appears too frozen. Even though that may be how the character should be acted out, its too stiff. But... that's just my opinion.
JagerQ @ Apr 5th 2007 7:11PM
It'd be good to see this side by side with the in game footage then. I wonder if they'd have had better luck capturing that impressive acting using that newer motion capture technique which uses paint.
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/08/03/motion-capture-just-got-better/
John @ Apr 5th 2007 9:56PM
Serkis also did the MOTION of Gollum, as well as the motion of King Kong.
giddieon @ Apr 6th 2007 12:36AM
this game is going to rock so hard... i can't wait... the story alone looks awesome!!!
amelia @ Apr 6th 2007 3:59AM
Well, it is a nice story. Maybe I should tell my friends on bikerkiss about this, I think they will like to see such things.
seedaripper @ Apr 6th 2007 8:07AM
hey he's quite a bloody good actor! i really enjoyed watching that (although it would of been nice to see the side by side comparisions)
JayD-1K @ Apr 6th 2007 8:49AM
i can't wait to see how all of this looks when you add in the clothing and the animation!
Fronz @ Apr 6th 2007 9:14AM
Sexy
sean @ Apr 6th 2007 4:06PM
shit thats cool.
evylpuck @ Jun 12th 2007 2:14PM
Why do people still insist on using old passive marker systems. Active marker systems could fix that jerkyness Dahk was refering to. Companies like www.phasespace.com offer some really good really cheap optical motion capture systems that use active markers. They produce some good capture at realtime, check them out.
evylpuck @ Jun 12th 2007 2:34PM
I agree with Dahk. The capture itself is a bit choppy. This is probably because people still insist on using old passive marker systems. Active marker systems like the one www.phasespace.com has. Check them out they can do realtime capture better and cheaper the passive marker systems.