VFX Artists React to LORD OF THE RINGS Bad & Great CGi 1

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Fun fact: Hobbiton was built one year before the filming of Lord of the Rings because they wanted the town to naturally age.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an achievement in filmmaking and I won’t hear anything different

Lord of the Rings: The perfect balance between CGI and Practical effects.

"Bad CGI" and "Lord of the Rings" should never be in the same sentence. The Hobbit on the other hand...

Lord of the Rings: a masterclass in forced perspective.

Special Effect team: so this is forced perspective, it's easy to use and... Peter Jackson: i want to move the camera Special Effect team: f**k!

You can tell these films were made with love.

Rest in peace Ian Holmes (Bilbo Baggins). He did a great job playing Bilbo.

I knew Lord of the Rings was impressive, but that table scene is just a completely new level.

Lord of the Rings is our generation's Wizard of Oz—we'll still be watching these movies 50 years from now. A masterpiece!

I can’t believe how good Golumn still looks

The scene where Theoden goes back to normal always amazes me, it just happens and it’s hard to notice something is happening

Peter Jackson: We're doing it the hard way.

JJ Abrams: "You might wonder why my VFX look better in Rise of Skywalker." Peter Jackson: "And you might wonder why I planned my story out."

I didn't think I could appreciate LotR more than I already did. But seeing this amount of hard work and dedication behind the camera somehow makes it all even more impressive. There is NEGATIVE laziness in every tiny shot. They are making models, overlapping shots, hire giant and tiny actors to fool your eyes, create dozens of modified, overlapping sets and set pieces... And some of this stuff they do for shots that last a brief second, shots that easily could've been cut out or done in another, easier way. And the best thing is, CGI is basically just a a subtle, gentle touch on top of all this. It's not replacing any characters, backgrounds and scenes, it's there to help connect everything that's real together. THAT'S how you use CGI. LotR hasn't aged a day. I watch it today and none of the effects take me out of the movie. And most likely, it never will. When a movie hasn't aged a day in 20 years, you know it's timeless.

I have to physically restrain myself right now not to turn this day into another LOTR-extended-cut+making-of marathon.

Fun fact about the scene with Gollum in the river: They filmed that in NZ in the winter. The crew scouted a good location, but when they arrived on the morning of the shoot everything was covered in snow. So the entire team came in with leaf blowers and hot water and started cleaning all the snow on scene. Andy Serkis then filmed 5 takes of crawling around in freezing water in sub-zero temperatures.

It aged like fine wine unlike 90% of the movies out there !

"they did all that for like two shots in the film." 'Those two shots' at the start of the three films is what lays the groundwork for believing this fantasy world and the effort clearly put in from creation of the story to the finished Hollywood product.