{"id":59230,"date":"2012-07-16T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=59230"},"modified":"2012-07-16T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:01:08","slug":"peter-jackson-on-doing-away-with-miniature-photography-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/16\/59230-peter-jackson-on-doing-away-with-miniature-photography-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson On Doing Away With Miniature Photography For The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Given the awe-inspiring miniatures and “bigatures” used for The Lord of the Rings<\/strong>,\u00a0many of TORn’s members have been questioning (some with a pang of longing!) the decision to do away with miniature photography for The Hobbit, speculating the use of 3D may have had something to do with it.<\/p>\n

Whilst poring over the numerous press interviews and Q&As conducted with\u00a0Peter Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0over the course of this weekend, we found the answer via\u00a0Collider.com<\/a>\u00a0in PJ’s response to\u00a0the question of what the biggest advances in technology have been since\u00a0The Lord of the Rings.\u00a0<\/strong>He says:<\/p>\n

The technology that advanced the most, in the last 10 or 12 years, is really the fact that we did a lot of miniature shooting on\u00a0The Lord of the Rings. All the big architectural structures of Middle Earth were really miniatures, some of them quite large. But, you\u2019re limited to what you can do with a miniature because you literally have to have a big camera that has to sweep past it, so you can\u2019t get too close to it and the detail doesn\u2019t hold up too well, if you do.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This time around, there are no miniatures. It\u2019s all done with CGI.\u00a0 Everything that we need to build, from a miniature point of view, we build as a CG miniature. I can now swoop in, over rooftops and through doorways. I can do things that I never could have dreamt of doing with the miniatures. For me, that\u2019s actually one of the most profound differences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the awe-inspiring miniatures and “bigatures” used for The Lord of the Rings,\u00a0many of TORn’s members have been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,16,497,4,99,74,496,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-production","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t