'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' & 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Actor Andy Serkis HATED By VFX Artists?

The world has come to know Andy Serkis as the go-to actor for Motion Capture work, but a recent interview he took part in has made Visual Effects artists pretty mad at the Lord of the Rings star. Apparently, Serkis has been saying that VFX is in no way as difficult as his performance and that, allegedly, all of the credit for his portrayal should go to him. The VFX company he works with most, Weta, begs to differ.

[The technology] has progressed extraordinarily in terms of the fidelity to the authored performance. But it's only partly to do with technology," Serkis said in an interview earlier this year with iO9. "It's more to do with having a team of people who fully understand the interpolation of a performance that they are seeing onscreen. They're taking the data and wrangling it in a way that honors the performance. The facial pipeline is now so refined by Weta and so understood by the artists that do that very delicate phase between taking the actor's raw underlying emotional performance and translating it into the actual final rendered character. It's fully understood, spectacularly so."

Basically, according to CartoonBrew, while it sounds like he's complimeting them, Serkis isn't giving enough credit to VFX artists.

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Meanwhile, director Matt Reeves recently talked about an alternate ending to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Read more on this HERE!