Lord of the Rings

According to Supreet Bahmra, Technical Director at Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematic (MAAC), “Both motion capture & digital reproduction technologies are changing the face of animation industry. Contour is undoubtedly a more efficient technology as it digitally reproduces a real life image. Movies like Antz had Sylvester Stallone playing the character of Antz and British actor, Andy Serkis, played the role of Gollum (in Lord of the Rings), all based on the motion capture technology. With Contour technology, the animation movies will have even more real life animated characters.”

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri