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Gollum combined an actor with digital animation

Andy Serkis performed on set and again in a motion capture studio For The Lord of the Rings, Andy Serkis played Gollum on location with the other actors so they had someone to react to, then repeated the performance in a motion capture volume. Animators used that data as the base for the digital character. The result persuaded the industry that performance capture could carry a leading role. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Andy Serkis performed on set and again in a motion capture studio. The figure is taken from Weta Workshop, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.