CGTalk - LOTR TT CGI shots

DotPainter

11-10-2002, 01:56 PM

Nice shots!

Funny thing, the gollum shot looks so real that it looks like some kinda animatronic....... (if not a real animatronic)

BTW, don't read the book "Lord Of The Rings", it may contain spoilers...... :scream: :beer:

Actually, far from these photos being spoilers, it proves how important VFX is to bringing a story like this to the big screen. Let's hope this one is as good as the first......

leigh

11-10-2002, 02:01 PM

Holy crap those are COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
:drool: :D :drool:
:eek:

G Nilsson

11-10-2002, 03:50 PM

what are you talking about
cant you all see that they forgot to straight the alpha on the tree before doing colorcorrection and therefiore got glow around its edges!
and even though the tree is overexposed, the brightest parts of it is still darker than the brightest parts of the rest of the image.
totally amateurish!

nah, just kidding :)
it looks really über..
cant wait to see it move
/G

ambient-whisper

11-10-2002, 07:18 PM

sweet :D. the movie will be here soooo soon :D cant wait

11-10-2002, 10:24 PM

Originally posted by DotPainter
BTW, don't read the book "Lord Of The Rings", it may contain spoilers......
lol I usually say, don't watch the movie if you want to read the book...
But well, they did a great job on those films, VFX-wise I mean, those are great shots! and it is CG? those guys at WETA can be praised...I'm real happy with the look of Treebeard, he's got a nice mood, very close to what I fancied.

yog

11-10-2002, 11:10 PM

........ = me speachless :applause:

I had a real worry about them buggering up Treebeard, heck it's not the easiest thing to portray.
I feal so bad for doubting the guys and gals at Weta, how could I ? :beer:

playmesumch00ns

11-11-2002, 09:34 AM

wow, incredibly cool. Can't wait, can't wait. Saw quite a long trailer at the cinema last night, and my heart doubled it's pace as soon as the music and the first shots of the mountains came on. ohmygodicantwait

googlo

11-11-2002, 11:38 AM

Oh man, look how fake! I'm not going to see this amateurish filth! ;)

How did that site get so many pictures of the movie? I haven't even seen a commercial for LOTR:2 yet.

wow, the forums at 'ain't it cool' are pretty ranty!

11-11-2002, 12:55 PM

hey googlo; that's cinema. Don't have to have VFX to use aditionnal lights where's they're not naturally.
;)

googlo

11-11-2002, 01:06 PM

Yeah, I think people go critique crazy sometimes, I was just being sarcastic about it after reading some of the posts in the forum at "ain't it cool" dot com. :)

11-11-2002, 04:46 PM

jschleifer

11-12-2002, 12:25 AM

It's been fun watching all the supposed CGI experts on AICN saying how it's obvious that it's a silicon animatronic standing. even after repeated statements by PJ saying that gollum is CG.

whee! :)

MrMunkily

11-12-2002, 04:15 AM

Reminds me of a "what 3d software should I use" article on slashdot. People who have no clue often begin to talk loudly and incoherently out of their bungholes.

derErschaffer

11-12-2002, 05:37 AM

COOOL pics...looks amazing...:applause: :applause: :applause:

playmesumch00ns

11-12-2002, 08:33 AM

Jason what creatures did you do on this one?

jschleifer

11-12-2002, 05:57 PM

I did a bit of pipeline work, but mostly animated gollum on it. I'm looking forward to being able to talk more about it after december 18th. :)

mikeS

11-13-2002, 04:32 PM

woh animating gollum ,hard job .i am looking forward to watch him in "the two towers".jason.do you use maya to do all the animation stuff and to model the creatures?

G Nilsson

11-13-2002, 04:47 PM

heh
dont wanna destroy the movie, but in the trailer, doesnt gollum sound awfully much like donald duck?

hope he wont be some kinda jarjar.
(which people who actually read the book guarantees he wont)

/G

jschleifer

11-13-2002, 06:14 PM

sorry mikeS..can't say too much yet, don't want to violate my contract! :) as soon as the film is released there should be a number of us going out and doing talks about the film.. so hopefully I'll be able to give more information at one of those.

-jason

dbclemons

11-14-2002, 11:00 PM

Nice. I'm hoping to see a whole army of the Ents attack Saruman's castle. That should be very interesting if they don't cut it out.

-David

ambient-whisper

11-15-2002, 12:13 AM

yes. lets hope they DONT cut it. :D cuz i really wanted to see the old forest in part 1 :(

Edge3343

11-15-2002, 06:25 PM

:eek:
/me wets his pants with excitement
:drool: :surprised :drool:

E_Moelzer

11-16-2002, 12:30 PM

Hello
Hmm some of the pix look like there is still something missing in them, like post? Colorgrading?
CU
Elmar

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