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alright guys I'm here in Vancouver on a five-acre set you can see behind me this is their prison set really combining practical set design with CG backgrounds filling this whole world for war for the plan of the effort we know people have called you really the godfather of motion capture how have you really seen the technology of all it's just such a brilliant technology and I've embraced it and of course now you know I have my own studio and own company so I can understand that I suppose I've spent you know the last 15 years working on characters using this technology so actively thought that on myself I mean I want to push the boundaries over 15 years ago when circus was working on Lord of the Rings they weren't able to shoot on live-action sets they were just limited to accede the environment that was basically a giant green screen room today every aspect of the technology has evolved to capture everything as it happens the big jumps have been really over the last 15 years have been have been from motion capture being in a volume a CG environment to shoot it on set and also facial capture and the way that these head mounted cameras are are incredibly subtle and pick up every single movement all these marks on my face are basically assigned to muscle groups which are then assigned to the muscle groups of the digital masks here alongside all of that actually is a growing understanding and a growing perception of performance capture and the animators who then take this data and and interpolate the performance and watch what the actors are doing and particularly wetter who have vast experience in this now who have a great kind of army of people who can who can then take what we do on set and interpret it and put it onto the the 8 character that you're playing Oh bad humans circus has defined and continues to elevate motion capture performances and after all these years he still experiences those moments of WoW for just something directing the jungle book and creating characters which are not humanoid a Christian Bale playing a panther for instance you know that that's a whole new level of performance capture and that's really becoming very interesting and exciting so yeah when I see those things coming to life it's it's incredibly thrilling there you have it for cnet.com I'm Brian Tom for war for the you