00:05The big challenge for us for this film was to take the performance capture technology that we'd set up and
00:12pushed further on Avatar and condense it down into a smaller package that we could take onto a live action
00:21film set.
00:21For Avatar most of that performance capture was happening on a dedicated sound stage, a big hangar in Los Angeles.
00:29For Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we wanted to take that same technology and put it on a
00:34working movie set, so both in the stage and on location as well.
00:39So we needed to take our technology and sort of adapt it so that it could be used, basically so
00:44it would be more portable, but also so it could be used in sunlight and under the kind of hot
00:49lights of the movie set.
00:57How do you think the actor's making on the day, like Andy Serkis, the way that his face is moving,
01:05the pacing, the emotion that he's putting behind his performance, if we're doing our job correctly,
01:15we're translating that directly into the digital character, we're not embellishing on that at all, so our goal is basically
01:25to be like digital makeup for him and just kind of take what he's done and put it on a
01:31different character.
01:37I think that's one of the things, having just seen the film recently in its kind of complete entirety, I
01:43think it's one of the things that works really well is that you end up kind of rooting for the
01:48apes.
01:49You're essentially seeing that environment through their eyes and I think that's one of the kind of fun differences between
01:58it and the original Charlton Heston movie is that you're experiencing the human world through the ape's eyes as opposed
02:05to experiencing an ape world through a human's eyes.
02:13I hope they like the apes the most. I think that's, you know, certainly I've got a lot invested in
02:19that, but yeah, we, well I guess the thing that I hope that they walk away from the film with
02:26is the, you know, thinking that the apes, you know, that they were rooting for them, that they felt emotionally
02:35connected,
02:36and that they feel like they've, you know, experienced that movie through the eyes of the apes.
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