{"id":70839,"date":"2013-04-16T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70839"},"modified":"2013-04-16T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:23:48","slug":"stuff-lays-bare-the-vfx-process-of-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/04\/16\/70839-stuff-lays-bare-the-vfx-process-of-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff lays bare the VFX process of ‘The Hobbit’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new Gollum in The Hobbit is technologically updated from the LOTR trilogy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Our own staffer Justin brought this excellent chat between Stuff magazine and Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri to light. Letteri discusses some of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and the challenges of shooting in 3D at 48 fps, but he also has some interesting things to say about Smaug.<\/p>\n

Letteri on Smaug:<\/strong> “Really, we could’ve done Smaug in the traditional way \u2013 just ask Benedict Cumberbatch to come into a voice booth and record his dialogue, and do everything entirely with keyframe animation. But when we record what Benedict’s body is doing, it frees him up to give us some idea of the physicality and intimate the poses, so that what he’s got on his mind can come through in how he’s performing it \u2013 and we’ll take that and extend it into what we do with the dragon.”<\/p>\n

Letteri on revisiting Gollum:<\/strong> “I don’t think so \u2013 it’s not something that Peter’s ever indicated that he was interested in doing, and for my mind I’m happy to just have the film be finished as a film. We were lucky to be able to come back and do Gollum now with what we know ten years later \u2013 we have the best of both worlds, we can do that in new scenes. But even if that hadn’t been the case, I’m inclined to say a film exists in and of its time \u2013 and if you want to see something new, go and make a new film.”<\/p>\n

You can read the rest of the excellent article right here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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