This is the technique used for performance capture...

The film was shot using performance capture, in which the actors performed the characters' movement while linked to sensors.

The visual effects and performance capture were done at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

On this evidence, the film's pioneering "performance capture" technique is still too crude and unrefined.

When it includes face and fingers or captures subtle expressions, it is often referred to as performance capture.

Some systems include details of face and fingers to capture subtle expressions, and such is often referred to as "performance capture".

It has since provided performance capture for international films including Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).

The character, like all the Na'vi, was created using performance capture, and its visual aspect is entirely computer generated.

High resolution passive facial performance capture.

On June 16, 2011, it had been announced that he will be voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch.