00:00Hey, you missed it. We just told everyone the definition of performance is capture.
00:08Wanna hear about it? Huh? Huh? Hey, where are you going now?
00:11Well, check this out. All the people you see on this train, the conductor, the kids, everyone in the scene have been made inside a computer by using actors.
00:21Plus lots and lots of little dots. Dots that literally capture, sort of like record, the performance of the actors.
00:27Yeah, yeah, that's where the term performance capture comes from. Did you know that? Huh? Huh? Well, do ya?
00:33What happens is every morning the actor wakes up and he goes into a makeup chair and instead of putting on his wardrobe, he puts on sort of a lycra suit and they attach these balls in places that can easily record all the movements of your body.
00:47Performance capture captures the movement of the actor's face and their body.
00:53So, how does this actor, in this suit, covered with all these dots, end up looking like this character in this scene, moving around in the movie?
01:01Looking a lot like a real live person?
01:05Basically, computer graphic skin is wrapped around that performance skeleton that has been recorded in the computer.
01:12Stop the train! Stop the train!
01:15Okay, I get it. It's time to stop and review.
01:23A review?
01:24So, to create all the characters in the Polar Express, a performer gets covered with dots, performs in the studio, that performance gets captured into a computer, and that frame or skeleton gets covered with skin and stuff.
01:37So, instead of the movie looking like a cartoon, it looks like hyper-reality, like animated reality, like bringing a storybook to life.
01:46Wow, performance capturing is cool.
01:48Performance capture process has unlimited possibilities, and it's really taken the pencil out of the hands of an animator and put it into the hands of the great actors.
01:59It was very fun, but it was, yeah, it was ridiculously challenging, but in a very, very good way, because it moved so fast, and if we could imagine it, we had it.
02:08Yeah, alright. So now we know about the acting, but what about the action? Huh? How do they do that?
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