{"id":67703,"date":"2012-12-28T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67703"},"modified":"2012-12-28T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:26:51","slug":"middle-earth-these-worlds-take-a-lot-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/28\/67703-middle-earth-these-worlds-take-a-lot-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth: these worlds take a lot of work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Production designer Dan Hennah\u00a0and Joe Letteri from Weta Digital spoke to Medakdo Murphy from the New York Times about the\u00a0challenges of bringing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey HFR 48fps to the big screen by using a combination of digital sets and normal sets and merging the two together.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hennah supervised the building of a flexible set. \u201cWe set it up so that we could make every component something we could move, lift up, turn around, interchange,\u201d he said. They had two studios full of these movable elements, from the rock walls to the walkways and ladders. A digital version of some of those elements was created by Mr. Letteri\u2019s team and blended together with the on-set props to create a seamless environment. <\/em>Spoilers ahead.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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