Most animated films bring each actor in one at a time and have them record all their dialogue acting against the director completely isolated. Gore Verbinski turned that concept on its head with Rango where he literally staged all the scenes and recorded the live performances of the actors - not only performing off each other but with props and minimal costumes as well.
Really cool approach that definitely enhanced the performances.
“Instead of motion capture, it’s kind of emotion capture.”
It’s sad that more animated films haven’t tried this before. Not saying that none of them have, but it seems to be more effective to do it this way.
