Zoe Saldaña drängt James Cameron, eine Dokumentation zu „Avatar“ zu machen, um „uns die Chance zu geben, zu erklären“, warum Motion Capture die „mächtigste Form der Schauspielerei“ ist.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/zoe-saldana-avatar-motion-capture-empowering-acting-1236545441/
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> “It gives us the credit, the ability to own 100 percent of our performance on screen,” said Saldaña, who has long been a champion of motion capture acting and has been outspoken about awards bodies such as the Oscars needing to consider it. “With animation, you might go into the studio for [a few] sessions; that’s as much as they’ll need you for the whole movie. You go into a studio, however you’re dressed, and you lend your voice, right? Performance capture means that ‘Avatar’ wouldn’t exist if Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, myself, and the entire cast didn’t get up and put those dots on our faces.”
> “We put on that little unitard with all those dots on it, and step into a volume – that’s what we call the set – that’s rigged on the ceiling, with all these cameras in measured positions,” she added. “They’re all pointing into this space that finds us, and feeds that information into the system that is Pandora.”
I mean, you can just talk to a camera and post your resoning on YouTube, but you wouldn’t get a fat check for that so you want a documentary made instead.
Sure. Let’s give James another reason to inflate his already megamind size ego.
Yes, insist to use how we feel about the art.
Zoe, if anybody is deserving of a documentary honoring motion capture performance, it’s not you, it’s Andy Serkis.
It’s not an opinion. These are just the facts.
It allows expression even through cgi I cannot imagine gollum or Caesar if it was a different actor they used for them.
In a few more years motion capture acting is going to be the **only** acting.
Ask yourself, how can these poor studios protect their IP if the images of their characters are inextricably linked to some specific (overpaid) actors faces?
How does that help the bottom line at struggling Disney!?
Solution? Motion capture whatever actors you like for absolutely every single role and reskin them with character designs and likenesses that your studio owns.
Maybe some famous actors will sell their likeness? Maybe Disney can do some digital necromancy and summon up dead actors with no legal protections?
Or maybe they will roll up perfect AI “stars” like we recently saw, whose entire existence and “social media stories” become a part of the studio’s promotional assets
Exactly what we see in animation is going to be coming to drama now that AI can easily re-skin an actors performance without even requiring the actor to use a motion capture suit.
Profit!