Weta Digital will create the visual component of the Silver Surfer character for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, utilizing advanced computer-generated animation techniques that work off motion capture technology. So far the voice actor for the character has not been named.
Weta has had lots of experience with this kind of character-generating animation thanks to the studio's work on the creation of the Gollum for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. As was the case with the Gollum, which was based on the movements of actor Andy Serkis, actor Doug Jones will provide the movement references for the liquid metal hero. Jones has had lots of experience in this kind of motion capture work. He played Abe Sapien in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy and Pan in del Toro's upcoming Pan's Labyrinth.