The King Of CGI
Andy Serkis has dominated the realm of CGI characters for years, from Gollum in The Lord of the Rings to Caesar in Planet of the Apes to Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Serkis is no stranger to what he calls “visual makeup.”
Serkis told The Independent that, because motion capture doesn’t involve hours of prosthetic makeup, actors can play their character more truthfully. “There is no difference between performance-capture technology and conventional acting,” he clarified. For Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Serkis studied gorillas to recreate their movements for the role.