Wyatt - who calls Serkis the “Charlie Chaplin of our time” - explained that his film is essentially a reboot, an original story, that takes place before the events depicted in 1968’s The Planet of the Apes. but participated in the discussion via Skype - offered the actor’s perspective. He and Letteri also discussed the innovative visual effects. To bolster its position, on Thursday, WETA held a preview and discussion about Apes at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena at which director Rupert Wyatt treated the audience to some exclusive clips of his upcoming film. Over the years, understanding of the technique has grown and many filmmakers have spoken out on that position, including James Cameron, who used performance capture and worked with WETA to realize Avatar. “Performance capture (is) really (designed) to give you the actors’ moment–the spontaneity, the thought, the insight that really comes from an actor who really truly understands his role,” says WETA’s four-time Oscar winning VFX supervisor Joe Letteri. WETA Digital, the Wellington, N.Z.-based VFX company behind both Rings and Apes, has always maintained that the actor drives the performance of its CG creations.
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