Motion Capture Filmmaking: Are Computer-Generated Actors the Future of Hollywood?

Andy Serkis is best known as being Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  In this role he showed the potential of motion capturing.  He launched his own specialty film studio - The Imaginarium.  He hopes to teach actors the craft of motion-capture performances, familiarizing them with the technology’s process.  Opinions; I think this technique is great when you want a 3d CGI film, but with the fluid and realistic movements of human beings. I do believe more and more industries are using this technique which is good, which means they are "keeping up with the times" and using the latest techniques to produce the best movie, short animation...whatever they are making.  The same technique was used in the movie Avatar (not the cartoon one).  The actors/actresses had certain suits they wore and sensors placed on various facial muscles and over their body to capture every move they made and converted into CG animation.  Hence why the movements looked very fluid.  Question; I have none. Article was plain and simple.