Director Andrew Stanton on the Creation of Mars Flick John Carter

Motion-capture is a fascinating tool, and I thought to make this movie it would be an essential tool because I always pictured this book as real when I was reading it as a kid. I didn?t picture it as a cartoon. I pictured a real guy standing in a real desert next to a real 10-foot alien with four arms talking to him. And that?s what I wanted to see. So I knew from my background?I started in 2D animation and was in the early days of 3D animation?and also just being a geek and watching how other movies are made that you needed the subtlety of reality. And we, fortunately, had enough examples in the last 10 years. Jar Jar Binks was the first all-CG main character in a movie, and then right after [that] came Gollum.

That was really what made me think the way to do this was to motion-capture a really good actor and get great animators to take all that work and make it the great performance. So the real truth is that to make the great performances that you?re seeing, whether it?s in Rise of the Planet of the Apes or Tintin, you have to have a great actor plus a great animator.

I got Willem Dafoe and Samantha Morton, and because they were 10-foot-tall aliens, I put them on stilts. They had the same kind of face-camera helmets that they had on Avatar to capture their face data. And they stood on the set in front of the camera acting against Taylor Kitsch (Carter) so all the reactions and everything were real and it could be impulsive. I wanted this to feel like a historical film, so I tried to have as much stuff happening practically in-camera as possible, which made a lot of work for us. But I think it adds this sixth sense that you might not have gotten otherwise.

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