Is now online the first Beowulf trailer, the new Robert Zemeckis movie (yes, the guy behind the zombie looks of Polar Express and Monster House).

Another great render work. I say RENDER, because there's no animation: just motion capture (aka mocap). OK, there is an insanely laborious work of "cleaning up" the captured data, but there's not animation in the essence of the latin word "anima" (soul) meaning something like "bringing life and soul to things". The guys/girls who work with this data don't create the performance, they clean it up.

Although it is aesthetically interesting, it has that "zombie-like" movements like any other mocapped film.

I really want to know the logic behind modeling Angelina Jolie's full body, recording her voice and capturing her movements but not using her on the film! Its as weird as that awful Orville Redenbacher resuscitation.