Robert writes: The LOTR Digital models supervisor was in Bologna yesterday at The Future Film Festival and our reader Rita sent me a fantastic report of the evening He partecipated at a conference, where he explained the work Weta Workshop has done. He spoke mostly about the work done with digital creatures as Gollum and the Ents. But he spoke also about the differences between what they have done in the first movie and what they have realised in TTT. There was also time to describe how they “improved” the human actors. For example, in one scene they needed to “erase” Viggo Mortensen’s real legs and to create a digital pair of legs to be more realistic! [Photos] [More]
Month: January 2003
LONDON (Reuters) – Boy wizard Harry Potter and his middle earth counterpart Gandalf both weaved money-spinning magic over cinema audiences last year — but whose sorcery left the biggest mark? [More]
Viggo Mortensen and author Jude Fisher will sign copies of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS VISUAL COMPANION at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA TODAY at 3:00 p.m. Presented by Houghton Mifflin, publishers of J.R.R. Tolkien since 1938
Check out this comic from Michael Fry and the folks at Commited. Take a look at the Orc dental plan! [More]
Quick. Name this movie: An innocent lad must save the world, while a wizened mentor gives counsel. A princess is caught in a love triangle, a world-weary warrior rises to the occasion, and a good guy is drawn to the dark side. Meanwhile, curious beings both scary and cute scoot about soaring cinemascapes that tease the eye and turbo-charge the imagination. [More]
Aradan writes: I picked up a copy of the complementary magazine published by the ‘Cineworld’ cinema chain here in the UK because it contained an interview with Liv Tyler about ‘The Two Towers’. Amongst all the usual stuff about costumes and elf ears there was one answer that caught my eye. [More]