Iron Man (Favreau 2008), The Lord of the Rings series (Jackson 2001), Harry Potter series (Columbus 2001) or Avatar (Cameron 2009) are not only the examples of high-grossing Hollywood films over the last decade, but also the illustrations of how visual effects have transformed Hollywood filmmaking. ... However, the most famous applicant of computer-generated performance is the Lord of the Rings series where the motion capture data of actor Andrew Serkis to generate the realistic fiction Gollum character. ...

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