History Main / SerkisFolk

* As opposed to the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles original films']] usage of animatronics, ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' uses MotionCapture for the turtles, as well as Splinter and the Shredder's PoweredArmor. The turtle’s Mocap suits even had "shells" that looked like couch cushions stuck to the back.

This is named after Creator/AndySerkis, who was transformed by CGI wizardry into the characters of Gollum (from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'') and [[Film/KingKong2005 King Kong]] for Creator/PeterJackson's films. The story goes that Jackson planned for Gollum to be entirely computer-generated and Andy Serkis to only provide the voice, but was so impressed by Serkis's mannerisms and facial expressions in his audition that he decided they just had to capture it somehow, leading to Andy physically playing the part as well. Thus Andy was on-set with the other actors performing the character, rather than the original plan where the actors pretended somebody was there. This turned out to be beneficial: the actors could play against a fellow performer, and any interactions Andy made on set would be captured on camera, such as stepping in water, throwing rocks, or pawing Frodo's petticoat.

* The games of David Cage and his studio Creator/QuanticDream are created almost entirely this way. In addition, Cage frequently has his characters be {{InkSuitActor}}s of those playing them.