LOTR Scale Compositing

From Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition Appendix on Visual Effects

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• special
• effects
• LOTR
• scale
• forced
• perspective
• compositing

[JEROyROSA]

Yeah, I was always wondering about those great special effects. They're AMAZABLE!!!!

[pointblizzy]

That is just one reason why this is the greatest trilogy of all time!!

[indie4life23]

@AssesinoCereal that's brilliant, I'm going to that too :)

[StudioVoxel]

At 2:12 you can see that Bilbo seems to cast a shadow on the wall, whereas Gandalf doesn't.

[AssesinoCereal]

Just tea, thank you.

I always say that when i enter a friend's house, even if he didn't offer anything.

[lesley915]

You know, at 1.35, you actually can see that it is a bluescreen, I think that how they did use htat tecnique and alle the others was just incerdible

[dheerajgupta4]

@marneebox Probably they positioned the cameras differently. Higher for the hobbits and lower for the 'men'

[marneebox]

i understand about the compositing and everything but when you look at the hobbits and gimli in front of the blue screen they still seem a lot smaller than when legolas, boromir, gandalf amd aragorn are in front of their blue screen. How did they achieve that look even without the scale compositing?

[joeylodes]

amazing!!!!!!!

[Faramirel]

I love how John Rhyss-Davies says "taller than the hobits, but not as tall as the elf". He's still so Gimli. It is noticable in other extramaterial too, they still have that "elf/dwarf" rivalery thing going on off camera! Even the actors are nerds - I LOVE it!