How do live action cgi characters work?

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To be clear, im not referring to characters where you can have a human actor play the part and then edit the animated model onto them. For characters with abnormal body types or shapes that cant be played by an actor, how is pre-edit filming done?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

In some cases, they literally just attach a tennis ball to a stick and tell the actor, “Here’s where his face will be,” and the actor just goes about the scene as normal, pretending it’s a giant slug monster or whatever

Anonymous 0 Comments

Put down some sort of placeholder for the actors to look at. I know I remember seeing some behind the scenes for the Narnia movies where Georgie Henley (Lucy) was hugging a big lion head that was there to represent Aslan.