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in the new dawn of the Planet of the Apes the Apes have a human quality in their facial expressions and movements but the actors who play the Apes aren't in heavy makeup and don't appear on screen a high-tech system called performance capture allows filmmakers to record and not only actors body movements but also their facial expressions and then layer on computer-generated effects you think about the performance capture which is we put the actors in suits with markers and we'll put cameras all around to kind of record their performance they'll wear a head rig with a video a video camera that allows us to record their facial performance we have technology that allows us to simulate fur and muscle dynamics oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Jolla Terry used the same technique to give life to characters in Avatar and the hobbit desolation of smaug for this film he created new versions of the body suits with markers embedded into form-fitting molds to get more accurate recordings we now try to figure out what makes age look real actress Karen Carnival was transformed into Maurice the helmet can get kind of by the end of the day the technology is also being used to give videogames a more realistic feel like the latest Call of Duty dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens a movie theaters July 11 in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News