Thursday, February 28, 2002
Jim Rygiel In NYC Report! - Xoanon @ 23:00 PST
Beau from fingolfin.com here. Just got back from seeing Jim Rygiel speak in NYC, and while I didn't really find out anything new, I did walk away with two interesting facts.

The first is the extent of the use of digital doubles in FOTR. I knew about them and saw Barrie Osborne speak of them at Lincoln Center last September, but I didn't know how much they were actually used. For instance, the shots of the Fellowship running across the Bridge of Khazad-dum and walking up the tree in Lothlorien are comprised entirely of digital characters!

Secondly, a very young audience member had the guts to directly ask him how the Ents would be realized. He said it was kind of a secret, but at one point, before the movies were shot, Treebeard was one of his biggest worries. After recently seeing some test shots of Treebeard, however, he said that it looked so great that he doesn't even think about it anymore! That sounded pretty positive.

Beau

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