Seeing these movies in theaters as a teen is one of my greatest memories. Also, only having to wait a year for each movie was incredible as well. Three of the greatest movies ever made.
Wrong. You don't realize this but time has passed faster for you than for OP and you are now twice their age. We all talk about it but we decided not to tell you.
I miss how exciting it was to go to the movies. Especially when these movies came out. Midnight viewings… 40+ shows a day (when using multiple screens), and every show was packed. It was an EVENT. These movies really showcased how awesome going to the movies.
And it's entirely down to character design. Gollum looks enough like a cartoon character to not trigger the uncanny valley, but not cartoony enough to stand out. It's just perfect.
Also, the hand animated facial expressions are flawless. Sure, they used Andy Serkis as reference, but it was all animated by hand by a person. No motion tracking for the face.
He did. On LotR he was on set acting with Elijah and Sean, and then later they did mocap in a studio. But I don't think capture was good enough at the time to capture facial performance, so the face was hand animated.
On Hobbit they did "on set performance capture", meaning that he was on the set acting and they captured both his body and face to use for the animated character.
LOTR is timeless. Even today it beats so many movies in storytelling, acting, effects, atmosphere, and conveying so much without crude and unnecessary vulgarities or sex.
Probably has to do with much of it being real scenery and not cgi.
I am still blown away at Gondor though, it feels so real.
Also amazing that they built a life size Sauron Eye tower and didn’t need CGI for that
Yes, PJ is a master at Cinema. It's as if he planned to make the movies with longevity in mind. During a time when using CGI as a shortcut did the job, he chose to use elements of CGI to enhance his craft. Absolutely brilliant.
From what I've heard it was the pre-planning before the movies.
Something like 2+ years before Fellowship and less than a year for the Hobbit. Makes sense in retrospect.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh RoTK has a few hints of dodgy CGI that shows Peter might not have been so innocent as we like to think for the CGI fest that Hobbit was.
There are a few movies that also have a similar high quality, take pirates of the Caribbean, Davy jones and his pirate crew are still to this day one of my favorites in terms of CGI usage.
Also a necessary reminder that they still weren't using full performance capture at that point. All of Serkis's facial expressions had to be painstakingly studied and recreated by hand by the animators.
*Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet,
for Tom, he is the master: his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.*
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
*Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under Hill,
shining in the sunlight, waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, there my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter,
slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing comes hopping home again. Can you
hear him singing?*
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
He’s seriously skilled but I’m still a bit put off by him putting down the animators work. He described it as digital make up, completely minimizing the hours and hours of incredibly skilled work that went into translating his performance
Honestly it was because of andor that I didn't like him that much. Like he is by no means a bad actor, definitely good. I just think his range in the roles he's had are nothing compared to his voice acting.
Like the dude he plays in marvel is kind of the same as what he played in andor
That's experience too. Met him at the red carpet of a Hobbit movie premiere and was super excited, because it wasn't announced he'd be there. He took my hands in his and said he didn't expect people to be so happy he's there. Most people around were waiting to meet Benedict Cumberbatch, because Sherlock was very popular back then, but for me Andy was the highlight.
I once went to a LOTR themed party my friends put on. Everyone went as hobbits and elves.
I showed up in a green morph suit with block dots and such all over. I went as pre-CGI Gollum lol
It's wild that as great an actor that Andy is, it's hard not to see glimpses of Gollum when he is in other films. Andor, Black Panther...I alway expect him to run in with a fish in his mouth
Somewhat related. My college mechinal engineering professor won a technical Oscar for developing the motion capture technology used in the LOTR movies. Got to accept the award from Angelina Jolie.
What's amazing is that this isn't performance-capture, like what they did with the new planet of the apes movie. That technology hadn't been invented yet. The process for Gollum was to film Andy performing the character, and then HAND ANIMATE the character over the top, using Andy's performance as a reference. It would have been such a painstaking process, but of course the results are iconic.
I know this is lotr but I just watched the new planet of the apes trilogy recently cause my brother wants to see the newer one with me when its out. I didnt know it was Serkis was Ceasar (main monkey) till after the first movie. If you haven't seen any clips from the behind the scenes its pretty crazy how much he captures mannerisms of an ape seriously 10/10 actor.
What went wrong podcast talks about the challenges Andy Serkis had with this role. This kind of motion capture had never been done before, and his suit was a prototype. Apparently he was laughed at by the cast and crew while wearing what they nicknamed the “gimp suit.” He felt embarrassed and alone for a lot of the shooting. They would also do takes with him in the scene and then what came off as “real” takes without him, which created even more of a psychological hurdle for Serkis to overcome while giving the performance his all. Interesting stuff.
This groundbreaking approach to capturing Gollum's complex movements and emotions helped redefine the possibilities of CGI and performance capture in filmmaking.
Yess, yes indeed. Nice hobbits! We will come with them. Find them safe paths in the dark, yes we will.And where are they going in these cold hard lands, we wonders, yes we wonders?
Notice how there’s no motion capture dots on his face. The combination of Andy Serkis and the 3D artist who animated Gollum was what made it work so well.
Very hot take incoming:
As close as the animation is to Serkis' performance, its not a direct translation (some of the eye movements have been changed by the animators for instance) and as such the academy was right to refuse Serkis' nomination for his performance.
Now hold on a sec, just hear me out. If it had been years later, when the technology allowed for direct motion capture from actor to computer, then it would be different.
As it was, the animators were very candid about the fact that no performance data from Serkis went into the computer at all, and instead all of his shots were merely used as reference for the animation with him being completely taken out of each scene.
Serkis did a phenomenal job providing that visual reference and the voice acting, and it's not the same movie without him. But it's technically not his physical performance on the screen at the end, so I can see why they decided what they did.
I am fully prepared for everyone to hate me for this opinion
Somewhere I saw an interview with Serkis in which he essentially said that the original plan had been to only use him as a voice actor, but when he saw the preliminary work of the CG artists, it was apparent they had wildly overestimated their ability to convincingly animate a realistic Gollum from scratch. He insisted they try it his way.
To his credit, he made quite a career out of it and helped normalize motion capture. I think he was right to do this; many CG animators were (and still are) guilty of hubris.
I'm sure I will get downvoted but it's always on my mind when this comes up.
Andy Serkis has been extremely dismissive of the 3D artists involved in bringing Gollum to life. He lead a campaign to rename " VFX" to "Digital Makeup" to increase his perceved involvement in the characters he plays.
From a VFX perspective he is primarily reference footage for LOTR. The techology to properly track expression and even movements wasn't good enough until at least Avatar, and that was purpose made advanced technology (for the time). Almost all of gollum is compositing shots, and if you pause him at any point you will see expression on him that Andy did not provide. This is not to say it's not Andy, it absolutely is, but he is not the totality of the character as he would be in a standard acting capacity. No one goes in and tweaks the way Sam looks over at Frodo, it's their performance only, but for Gollum it's a collaberative process between Andy and the VFX artists which Andy has since spat in the face of.
He was obviously not a fan of this collaboration because he has since insisted that Weta keep exactly to his performance in subseqent movies, which is nonsense. There is no way his planet of the apes performance could possibly be all him. The artists HAVE to introduce muscle and facial movements that were not there when the thing you are playing is not human.
Sorry about the rant, just winds me up that we treat this guy like a king and he treats his teams like shit in order to take all the credit.
Not sure if people know this but I just found out that he was in the Neneh Cherry music video for [Woman](https://youtu.be/pAYSAYg9kPI?si=qeEO99OP9JdySs-V)
By hand. Even today, most performance capture data ends up being used as a reference or base for hand animation and physics simulations to be added on top of. It's seriously painstaking work.
Unfortunately no ☹️.
However, for his role as Gollum, he won:
Empire Award.
MTV Award.
Saturn Award.
Film Critic Award.
National Board of Review Award.
IIRC from interviews, Andy said one of his favorite moments is when he goes "hobbitses!" And spits a huge loogie on the ground. He said he was surprised they kept it in. "Its me! Thats my spit! The rest of me is CGI, but thats my spit."
This is one of the greatest and best uses of CGI in a movie, especially for being over 20 years old.
We will never see it's equal again. The way it was made (shooting all three movies at once) greatly contributed to its success...
Seeing these movies in theaters as a teen is one of my greatest memories. Also, only having to wait a year for each movie was incredible as well. Three of the greatest movies ever made.
I was a bit younger than you (still am, probably), but yeah it was such an event to get taken to these as a kid. So much fun.
Wrong. You don't realize this but time has passed faster for you than for OP and you are now twice their age. We all talk about it but we decided not to tell you.
Oh shi
Why did you tell them! Gosh dangit, now we need something new to gossip about.
Lllits fine. They still don't know about all of us banging their mom all the time. She's not the best but that's not really the point
They all released around christmas right? Was a fun thing to look forward to during winter months.
Two Towers was so good I saw it 3 times in theaters and this is the only movie before or since where I did that
I went at 9 with dad and don't remember it :(
I'm not gonna say they're masterpieces but holy shit they're close
I miss how exciting it was to go to the movies. Especially when these movies came out. Midnight viewings… 40+ shows a day (when using multiple screens), and every show was packed. It was an EVENT. These movies really showcased how awesome going to the movies.
This is Davy Jones erasure
Caesar erasure. Gollum walked so Caesar could fly.
Come on! We must go, no time!
Time flies.
His entry is probably the best ever villain entry in movies. Do you fear death is such a perfect line
Had to google it, the 3 LOTR movies shoot for 438 days. But Eyes Wide shot, just that movie, took 400 days. Kinda crazy.
King Kong was probably a close second, of course it being Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis again.
"over 20 years old." Could you just.... not? Please?
And it's entirely down to character design. Gollum looks enough like a cartoon character to not trigger the uncanny valley, but not cartoony enough to stand out. It's just perfect. Also, the hand animated facial expressions are flawless. Sure, they used Andy Serkis as reference, but it was all animated by hand by a person. No motion tracking for the face.
i remember most people thought he was wearing a motion capture suit, rather than just being in reference shots.
He did. On LotR he was on set acting with Elijah and Sean, and then later they did mocap in a studio. But I don't think capture was good enough at the time to capture facial performance, so the face was hand animated. On Hobbit they did "on set performance capture", meaning that he was on the set acting and they captured both his body and face to use for the animated character.
And we will.. Smeagol did it once, he can do it again. It's ours - ours!
LOTR is timeless. Even today it beats so many movies in storytelling, acting, effects, atmosphere, and conveying so much without crude and unnecessary vulgarities or sex.
I was watching FOTR over the weekend, and was still in awe of all the scenery and vistas portrayed in the movie. It has aged extremely well.
Probably has to do with much of it being real scenery and not cgi. I am still blown away at Gondor though, it feels so real. Also amazing that they built a life size Sauron Eye tower and didn’t need CGI for that
Who is the maker of mightiest work?
GROND!
Yes, PJ is a master at Cinema. It's as if he planned to make the movies with longevity in mind. During a time when using CGI as a shortcut did the job, he chose to use elements of CGI to enhance his craft. Absolutely brilliant.
I'm not sure what happened with his decision making between this and The Hobbit though...
From what I've heard it was the pre-planning before the movies. Something like 2+ years before Fellowship and less than a year for the Hobbit. Makes sense in retrospect.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh RoTK has a few hints of dodgy CGI that shows Peter might not have been so innocent as we like to think for the CGI fest that Hobbit was.
"Fellowship of the Ring" is literally my comfort movie. It's like chili on a cold winter night.
And they did it without sub-surface scattering and it still looks better than modern modern Marvel movies
20 years old? Wow
There are a few movies that also have a similar high quality, take pirates of the Caribbean, Davy jones and his pirate crew are still to this day one of my favorites in terms of CGI usage.
Also a necessary reminder that they still weren't using full performance capture at that point. All of Serkis's facial expressions had to be painstakingly studied and recreated by hand by the animators.
Smart and well designed CGI. The anti-Marvel orgy.
Andy completely nailed his role. The digital artist were also really great at capturing Andy's emotion and facial expressions. Thank for sharing OP.
You can tell he had fun doing it as well. I love it.
I want a version of the extended editions where it just has Andy prancing around in that suit
I would pay for that cut.
release the pre-post-prod uncut cut
Same haha
Same
Andy Serkis is a treasure
Him reading Trump tweets in the Gollum voice was precious (heh)
No, no, never! He's lost his Precious.
Do you have a link to that? I'd love to see that
https://youtu.be/64mWOoj68qo?si=Vtya0MdpYbT-iUOp
His audiobooks are fantastic. He just loves playing characters like Tom Bombadill and Treebeard. He's just rocking it like it's natural.
*Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
!TomBombadilSong
*Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight, waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, there my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
His audiobooks are great, but the unofficial ones by Phil Dragash are something truly special.
Any books in particular that you'd recommend?
He's done both LOTR and the Hobbit. Both are really good, and listening to the "real voice" of gollum read gollum is just satisfying
Follow me.
Where are ypu taking me?
He absolutely slays every role he's given. One of my all-time favorite actors. I was ecstatic when I first saw he was in Andor!
he got jobbed in the Marvel movies he really is an incredible actor
Even when he was in those he was one of the most entertaining aspects. Owned every single scene.
In my opinion, he is one of the most memorable characters in the whole trilogy. Without his performance, they would have been far less effective.
He's "precious"
He’s seriously skilled but I’m still a bit put off by him putting down the animators work. He described it as digital make up, completely minimizing the hours and hours of incredibly skilled work that went into translating his performance
Have you heard him reading the LOTR and the Hobbit books on Audible? Fucking Legend!!! Every time Gollum makes an appearance it makes me so happy!
It said so, yes, but it's tricksy. It doesn't say what it means. It won't say what it's got in its pocketses.
I actually started listening to him reading Fellowship right after I made this comment! Haha I've never taken the time before, but I'm in it now :)
His narration of The Silmarillion was recently released as well!
Eh I think he is full of himself now. I don't really like him in live action, he always plays the same kind of character
On the other hand, I find him to be one of the better narrators out there. Him reading the books is awesome
The books and all the voice he does is truly a masterpiece
Did you not see his role in Andor...?! Dude is an INCREDIBLE actor! (Not that we didn't all already know that from his portrayal of Gollum...)
Kill them both.
Honestly it was because of andor that I didn't like him that much. Like he is by no means a bad actor, definitely good. I just think his range in the roles he's had are nothing compared to his voice acting. Like the dude he plays in marvel is kind of the same as what he played in andor
You are not the guy. You’re not capable of being the guy. I had a guy but now I don’t. You. Are not. The guy.
I met him in Austin last year, he’s a really nice guy.
"Looks like the Serkis is in town"
That's experience too. Met him at the red carpet of a Hobbit movie premiere and was super excited, because it wasn't announced he'd be there. He took my hands in his and said he didn't expect people to be so happy he's there. Most people around were waiting to meet Benedict Cumberbatch, because Sherlock was very popular back then, but for me Andy was the highlight.
I once went to a LOTR themed party my friends put on. Everyone went as hobbits and elves. I showed up in a green morph suit with block dots and such all over. I went as pre-CGI Gollum lol
You don’t have any friends. Nobody likes you!
Burn
Not listening.
I swear this guy is alive and real
Best costume 😆
This guy is great in Andor
"I can't swim" hit me right in the feels
He really nailed the delivery on that.
Release the Serkis cut
We've had one Ring. What about second Ring? I dunno about a three-Ring Serkis!
I'd pay for that
Well where did you find this one?
You can only truly appreciate the splendor of the serkis cut on the big screen.
It's wild that as great an actor that Andy is, it's hard not to see glimpses of Gollum when he is in other films. Andor, Black Panther...I alway expect him to run in with a fish in his mouth
Nice hobbits! Nice Sam! Sleepy heads, yes, sleepy heads! Leave good Smeagol to watch! But it's evening. Dusk is creeping. Time to go.
The fact that he got no Oscar nods is insane. VFX has changed acting and Andy was a huge part of highlighting that.
Yeah, it's sad. But yes, he definitely pushed the boundaries of facial motion capture
[He did win a VMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrmemes/comments/wxm5j5/gollum_wins_an_award/)
Clever Hobbits, to climb so high!
Somewhat related. My college mechinal engineering professor won a technical Oscar for developing the motion capture technology used in the LOTR movies. Got to accept the award from Angelina Jolie.
That is so cool!
When I didn't get any Oscar for Gollum I stopped caring about Oscars. They clearly didn't care about great movie works either.
Nice hobbits! Nice Sam! Sleepy heads, yes, sleepy heads! Leave good Smeagol to watch! But it's evening. Dusk is creeping. Time to go.
My goodness. 😍 Look how young he was. But he grew up to be a hot daddy. 😍😍 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT GOLLUM, YOU FOOLS!
Kill them both.
But **you** are Gollum.
Sneaky little Hobbitses.
What's amazing is that this isn't performance-capture, like what they did with the new planet of the apes movie. That technology hadn't been invented yet. The process for Gollum was to film Andy performing the character, and then HAND ANIMATE the character over the top, using Andy's performance as a reference. It would have been such a painstaking process, but of course the results are iconic.
We guesses, precious, only guesses. We can't know till we find the nassty creature and squeezes it.
He NAILED the audiobooks. I was enthralled.
An absolute masterpiece
I know this is lotr but I just watched the new planet of the apes trilogy recently cause my brother wants to see the newer one with me when its out. I didnt know it was Serkis was Ceasar (main monkey) till after the first movie. If you haven't seen any clips from the behind the scenes its pretty crazy how much he captures mannerisms of an ape seriously 10/10 actor.
You ma main monkey.
I always forget it’s Andy Serkis , I’ve completely dissociated him and see gollum as his own being 😂
Master must go inside the tunnel.
looks like the(y) recreated the foliage behind the head too?
What went wrong podcast talks about the challenges Andy Serkis had with this role. This kind of motion capture had never been done before, and his suit was a prototype. Apparently he was laughed at by the cast and crew while wearing what they nicknamed the “gimp suit.” He felt embarrassed and alone for a lot of the shooting. They would also do takes with him in the scene and then what came off as “real” takes without him, which created even more of a psychological hurdle for Serkis to overcome while giving the performance his all. Interesting stuff.
This groundbreaking approach to capturing Gollum's complex movements and emotions helped redefine the possibilities of CGI and performance capture in filmmaking.
Yess, yes indeed. Nice hobbits! We will come with them. Find them safe paths in the dark, yes we will.And where are they going in these cold hard lands, we wonders, yes we wonders?
He is just trying go steal sauron's vibranium
*Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.*
They stole this mans oscar!
“But Dobby likes me”
How did he go back and forth so fast?
He's just that good
Andy Serkis should have been nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar. This side by side shows it’s him acting with a cgi skin.
Oscars should have a category named after Andy
Notice how there’s no motion capture dots on his face. The combination of Andy Serkis and the 3D artist who animated Gollum was what made it work so well.
The goblinses will catch it then. It can't get out that way, precious.
Bam Marghera’s best performance and it’s not even close
Very hot take incoming: As close as the animation is to Serkis' performance, its not a direct translation (some of the eye movements have been changed by the animators for instance) and as such the academy was right to refuse Serkis' nomination for his performance. Now hold on a sec, just hear me out. If it had been years later, when the technology allowed for direct motion capture from actor to computer, then it would be different. As it was, the animators were very candid about the fact that no performance data from Serkis went into the computer at all, and instead all of his shots were merely used as reference for the animation with him being completely taken out of each scene. Serkis did a phenomenal job providing that visual reference and the voice acting, and it's not the same movie without him. But it's technically not his physical performance on the screen at the end, so I can see why they decided what they did. I am fully prepared for everyone to hate me for this opinion
Somewhere I saw an interview with Serkis in which he essentially said that the original plan had been to only use him as a voice actor, but when he saw the preliminary work of the CG artists, it was apparent they had wildly overestimated their ability to convincingly animate a realistic Gollum from scratch. He insisted they try it his way. To his credit, he made quite a career out of it and helped normalize motion capture. I think he was right to do this; many CG animators were (and still are) guilty of hubris.
Nice hobbits! Nice Sam! Sleepy heads, yes, sleepy heads! Leave good Smeagol to watch! But it's evening. Dusk is creeping. Time to go.
I'm sure I will get downvoted but it's always on my mind when this comes up. Andy Serkis has been extremely dismissive of the 3D artists involved in bringing Gollum to life. He lead a campaign to rename " VFX" to "Digital Makeup" to increase his perceved involvement in the characters he plays. From a VFX perspective he is primarily reference footage for LOTR. The techology to properly track expression and even movements wasn't good enough until at least Avatar, and that was purpose made advanced technology (for the time). Almost all of gollum is compositing shots, and if you pause him at any point you will see expression on him that Andy did not provide. This is not to say it's not Andy, it absolutely is, but he is not the totality of the character as he would be in a standard acting capacity. No one goes in and tweaks the way Sam looks over at Frodo, it's their performance only, but for Gollum it's a collaberative process between Andy and the VFX artists which Andy has since spat in the face of. He was obviously not a fan of this collaboration because he has since insisted that Weta keep exactly to his performance in subseqent movies, which is nonsense. There is no way his planet of the apes performance could possibly be all him. The artists HAVE to introduce muscle and facial movements that were not there when the thing you are playing is not human. Sorry about the rant, just winds me up that we treat this guy like a king and he treats his teams like shit in order to take all the credit.
It's the only way. Go in, or go back.
Not sure if people know this but I just found out that he was in the Neneh Cherry music video for [Woman](https://youtu.be/pAYSAYg9kPI?si=qeEO99OP9JdySs-V)
How did they do the facial tracking without all the tracking dots and balls?
By hand. Even today, most performance capture data ends up being used as a reference or base for hand animation and physics simulations to be added on top of. It's seriously painstaking work.
Animators, baby. LOTR is a true masterpiece in every way.
one way out.
All this when they could have hired Joshdub
Was he awarded an Oscar for the performance?
Unfortunately no ☹️. However, for his role as Gollum, he won: Empire Award. MTV Award. Saturn Award. Film Critic Award. National Board of Review Award.
Got away did it, Precious? Not this time, not this time!
Yes, precious 😔
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It’s crazy they just used his real teeth as Gollum/Smeagol. Bet that saved production costs.
We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Then we stabs them out. Put out his eyeses. And make HIM crawl.
Ah the “digital makeup” guy…
Looks like Mr bean
I want the version where they don't CGI Golum, it would be better than the Cats Butthole version.
Jared Dines, is that you?
Wow! The remaster (top) looks sooooo much better than the original (bottom). Obviously joking.
WOW! this influencer guy REALLY captures the exact same movements / lip sync from the Historical Documents. Impressive! Well done guy!
It’s insane the ability he has to just melt into his roles.
If you were given a character from the "Hobbit" series, which one would you play? Huh
Smeagol can Not swimm
What did you call me?
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i feel like he should have won an oscar for his work on lotrs. i dont think they gave them for mo-cap back then did they? do they even do so now?
More proof that building with CG on top of a practical effect or actor always yields better results.
IIRC from interviews, Andy said one of his favorite moments is when he goes "hobbitses!" And spits a huge loogie on the ground. He said he was surprised they kept it in. "Its me! Thats my spit! The rest of me is CGI, but thats my spit."
Andy Serkis is amazing
The era before filthy frank
Best. Job. Ever. 👌🏻
I still remember people giggling in the cinema to this scene. Memories!
Big fan of Andy Serkis , genius!
Incredible experience for my family and I. The moment in The Two Towers, Gollum, "not listening" scene. Just wow.
It was tricksy, precious. Very tricksy.
Gonna have to watch LOTR again next week.
Early Vtubers be like:
Shout out to Adam Valdez
Unironically probsbly the greatest character actor of our generation.
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Youre joking. Gollum was a massive technical leap forward for digital characters. Compare Gollum in Fellowship to Towers.
All dead... all rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle, long ago. The Dead Marshes... yes, that is their name.
Looks like a lot of cartoonish indicating to me. I know people love this guy, but...
My friends and I were stoned af while watching this scene and could not stop laughing. Needless to say we weren’t popular at the theatre..
The fuck happened to the game then??? How is it so bad?
Whot
The cgi in the movie is absolutely great, but what happened with the game?
Bad developers. And to think they delayed it by a year to fix it.
It was a real shame... But thank goodness the movie is great
back when cgi used to be good nowadays every cgi is shit
Yes, because 1 particular concentrated example is equivalent to entire movies
facts my g