Writer: Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis won Best Director for Forrest Gump and co-wrote Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Bob Gale. He pursued performance capture animation for a decade with mixed results and pioneered the visual effects in Gump.

The Polar Express (2004) film posterRobert Zemeckis

The Polar Express (2004)

Tom Hanks performs motion capture for six different roles including the boy, the conductor, the boy's father, the hobo, the narrator, and Santa Claus. The film's central technological achievement and its central technological problem are the same thing.

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