Andy Serkis has revealed that he is setting up a performance capture studio here in the UK.
Serkis is famed for his work using this process as he took on the role of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, a role he is set to reprise in The Hobbit, and King Kong.
Speaking to the Press Association the actor said: "I'm setting up a performance capture studio of my own here in the UK called the Imaginarium.
"It's going to have an academy attached to it and it's to service films and games. It's looking at the relationship of performance capture with the live performing arts and it's like a laboratory for actors, directors and filmmakers to come and experiment with the art and craft of performance capture."
And Serkis very much believes that the motion capture work that he does is no different to normal acting, an argument that always resurfaces around the time of the Oscar nominations.
"It's very much like normal acting. People I think have a slightly skewed attitude towards it. But it's exactly the same process - you're getting into character and playing a role and it's just finally the character is manifested on screen as a digital representation of your performance."
It's been a busy year for the actor as he has already completed work on Rise of the Apes, which also stars James Franco and Freida Pinto, and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.
He is currently starring in Burke and Hare with Simon Pegg and is filming Death of a Superhero. Work on The Hobbit, which will be split into two movies, is expected to begin in the new year.
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