{"id":1092,"date":"2006-09-19T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/09\/19\/the-man-behind-gollum-heads-for-swansea\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:25:11","slug":"the-man-behind-gollum-heads-for-swansea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/09\/19\/1092-the-man-behind-gollum-heads-for-swansea\/","title":{"rendered":"The man behind Gollum heads for Swansea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontAS.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Andy Serkis, one of the leading actors in modern film animation, and a star of the successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, is due in Swansea later this year for a major film animation conference. The city&#8217;s annual Swansea Animation Days event returns in November, attracting companies and speakers from the animation and computer graphic imagery industry into the city. Serkis, due to be a speaker at the Swansea Institute conference, provided the movements and the voice for the computer- generated character Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films (2001-03). [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/0200wales\/tm_objectid=17777179&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=50082&#038;headline=the-man-behind-gollum--heads-for-swansea-date-name_page.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Serkis, one of the leading actors in modern film animation, and a star of the successful Lord&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}