What role does carbon dioxide play in climate change? Carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas. It's released naturally in some cases through processes like volcanic eruption, but over the last 170-plus ...

Performance capture is one of the most exciting new tools available to filmmakers this century. But, if you’re an up and coming cinematic storyteller, how can you use it in your own filmmaking?

Director Wes Ball's "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" takes place 300 years after the death of Caesar (Andy Serkis) and the previous "Planet of Apes" trilogy, when humanity lost the wars and Apes ...

He’s the face of motion-capture performance. Whether it’s as the nefarious and rather grotesque “Gollum,” Tintin’s beloved best friend and sidekick, the grouchy “Captain Haddock,” or more recently the ...

Most importantly for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" actor Andy Serkis, however, is the way attitudes toward performance-capture technology -- also called "motion-capture" or "mo-cap" technology -- ...

There’s a lot of pressure involved in trying to follow a trilogy as acclaimed and accomplished as the Andy Serkis-led “Planet of the Apes” saga, which culminated with 2017’s “War for the Planet of the ...

New research posits that approximately 5% of stars within our galaxy, potentially billions, may have gravitationally captured free-floating planets that originated from other star systems. This ...

Actor Andy Serkis is known for his motion capture roles in film. His most recognizable work has been as Gollum / Smeagol in both "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit." When "The Dawn of The ...

Astronomers believe they’ve seen something quite special—a planet being born before their eyes. Using a powerful telescope in Chile, they’ve spotted clues of a young planet forming 440 light-years ...

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...