weta's gollum

Andy Serkis and the folks at WETA Digital worked magic on their computers to create Gollum for the big screen. Take a look at these photos featuring both Andy and Gollum side-by-side! [More]

Galadriel-ca writes: I dropped in at HMV early this month, and it seems they’re pretty much ready for August 26th. They had their New Release fliers available detailing not only what’s on the DVD, but what their lenticular (or holographic, if you prefer) insert will look like this time. The flier is a little misleading in that it doesn’t really say if there are two versions of the insert, but the cashier I spoke to seems relatively sure that the two images are one and the same rather than separate versions. [More]

A Tolkien workshop will be held at the University of Western Ontario this Friday, August 15. It’s $60CDN for the day + $12CDN for lunch. [More]

Just a reminder that Elijah Wood will be on E! News Daily at 7pm tonight. Check your local listings for the E! Channel. [More]

Beh sends this in: Jon Labrie, former CTO at Weta Digital – who masterminded the digital architecture behind the Lord of the Rings films. Meet the Tech Wizard Behind Lord of theRings at Content World 2003 in Los Angeles. [more]

Beh sends this in: Jon Labrie, former CTO at Weta Digital – who masterminded the digitalarchitecture behind the Lord of the Rings films.

Meet the Tech Wizard Behind Lord of theRings at Content World 2003

Jon Labrie, former CTO at WetaDigital – who masterminded the digital architecture behind the Lord of theRings films – is looking forward to meeting you at Content World in LA. Jon will be drawing on his experience with Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema to discuss the process of creating content for multiple delivery systems: film, DVD and Web, as well as examine the logical progression to his new venture, Kedidi Wireless.

Jon’s keynote presentation, “Something in the Air: Content for a Mobile Audience” is at10:30am on Wednesday, October 8.

To see the full agenda, and takeadvantage of early bird registration click here.