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further amazement at LotR
So, I watched one of the supplementary discs in the FotR set last night from start to finish. It goes in behind the scenes and tells you about how they did a good proportion of the visual effects, essentially showing you the man behind the curtain.
I'm now more impressed than I was just watching the movie.
The various tricks used for making the hobbits small were really neat, especially the "forced perspective with moving camera" and "big rigs". The miniatures (or bigatures, as they called them) are works of art. Heck, the Argonath has a backstory! Did you even notice the quarried cliff-faces which provided the extra stone for the arms?
What really blew me away, though, was the Cave Troll fight. First they create a virtual set. Then they give Peter Jackson a virtual camera, so he can run around as if he were on this virtual set with a handicam. Amaaaaaaazing.
I have no idea how much of this stuff is old hat (I know that forced perspective is old, and MASSIVE is pretty damned new, albeit based on older techniques) but it's really, really cool to see how it's all done.
Oh, and for doubleplus goodness: the disc switched to 5.1 sound when they were covering the audio sections. Excellent!
I'm now more impressed than I was just watching the movie.
The various tricks used for making the hobbits small were really neat, especially the "forced perspective with moving camera" and "big rigs". The miniatures (or bigatures, as they called them) are works of art. Heck, the Argonath has a backstory! Did you even notice the quarried cliff-faces which provided the extra stone for the arms?
What really blew me away, though, was the Cave Troll fight. First they create a virtual set. Then they give Peter Jackson a virtual camera, so he can run around as if he were on this virtual set with a handicam. Amaaaaaaazing.
I have no idea how much of this stuff is old hat (I know that forced perspective is old, and MASSIVE is pretty damned new, albeit based on older techniques) but it's really, really cool to see how it's all done.
Oh, and for doubleplus goodness: the disc switched to 5.1 sound when they were covering the audio sections. Excellent!