![]() ![]() By setting up the pipeline with a lot of standards in mind, we could pull people in from all over the world." Indeed, the studio grew from 150 people on the first film to around 420 at the height of production for the third, with 20 compositors brought in during the final 10 weeks. Also, we hammered on the pipeline and got all the things we needed working to the point where the technical side was transparent and people could just use it. This time, we had a system in place, so if we needed to stage something that didn't exist, we'd be ready. ![]() "At the end of film two, when Peter decided to flood Isengard, we had to fly by the seat of our pants. "We knew the volume of shots we'd have to do," says Joe Letteri, visual effects supervisor at Weta. For each, Weta developed innovative and efficient techniques-some involving major changes, others more a matter of fine-tuning. "I figure we're pushing an hour and a half to two hours of effects." Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand, created 1500 of those shots- twice the number the studio created for the second film (750), which was nearly twice the number of the first (400).Īmong the 1500 shots are scenes with Gollum, creatures new and old, digital environments, and procedural simulations. "It probably has around 1800 visual effects shots," says Jim Rygiel, visual effects supervisor. In terms of effects, it turns out that the first films were a dress rehearsal for the third, which has more effects than the first two combined. Nor, in The Return of the King, would we watch 250,000 Orcs, thousands of horsemen, and mammoth Mumakils trumpet their way into battle, Gandalf fly on the wings of an eagle, and Frodo, Sam, and Gollum wrestle near the lava of Mount Doom. It would belittle Jackson's grand accomplishment to call these sagas "effects films." Yet without visual effects, both practical and digital, we wouldn't have seen, in the first two films, 10,000 Orcs attacking Helm's Deep, Gandalf fighting a fiery Balrog, Gollum leading Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom, or an army of Ents high-stepping out of a forest. ![]()
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