There’s just been a conference in Wellington on movie SFX and of course one of the invited speakers was Adam Valdez, Animation Supervisor.<\/p>\n
Helpful correspondent MN emailed us instantly it seems with this report:<\/p>\n
He gave a talk based “around” Lord of the Rings. I mean “around” because he was unable to really give any details whatsoever on his work, and couldn’t show us any clips or footage, which was a little disappointing.<\/p>\n
He gave one or two interesting snippets:<\/p>\n
– He said that working on the project was ‘intimidating’ because of the worldwide love for the book
– The flavour of the animations would be very ‘unique’, unlike what would be seen in standard Hollywood studios
– One of the interesting visual treatments that falls under his unit is to portray the ‘wraith-world’ that Frodo enters when he puts on the Ring. He couldn’t be very specific but mentioned that it was full of ‘weird stuff’
– He went on to mention some of the CG creatures: giant octopus,(The Watcher in the Water? – Tehanu) digital doubles for Frodo, trolls, Balrog, Uruk-hai, Treebeard, Shelob, oliphaunt, and of course Gollum.
– He said that Gollum would be the greatest challenge of the movie for him.
– A lot of work had been done on Gollum, but ‘he’s not there yet’
– Their crowd work, using ‘Massive’, would raise the bar to new heights for crowd scenes.
– One of the most important things to take into consideration when animating is what music you’re listening to at the time.<\/p>\n
Many thanks to MN for that.
So, Shelob and Treebeard are in (I’ve heard people complaining that they weren’t)and we have a hint about how they’ll show the Ring or its effects when Frodo has it on.<\/p>\n
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