What are the main differences, as an actor, between working with PC and traditional stage and film acting? If you are playing an ape or a fantasy creature like Gollum, you need to learn to calibrate your movements to match these characters. What is performance capture, exactly? There's an important distinction between motion capture, which is the technology used to track body movement and was developed by the medical industry to assess injuries, and performance capture (PC) which has been developed by the film industry as a means of capturing on film an actor's complete performance – their physical, facial and vocal performance.
