Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.