![]() Variations may occur.Well, my stress level is already starting to rise and we are still 2 days away from preorder. Please note: images show a pre-production prototype. The resulting sculpture has a genealogy that can be traced to the heart of Middle-earth. To fill the cart, the Wētā Workshop crew looked beyond what was seen on screen, basing select designs on original, previously unseen conceptual art from The Fellowship of the Ring. Model-makers David Tremont and Leonard Ellis physically retextured the resin 3D print with an intricate level of real-world detail.Įach firework in Gandalf’s cart has been replicated directly from its film version where possible. With digital software, Steven used these references as an overlay for the sculpture to ensure fidelity to the film scene. Sculptor Steven Saunders had the benefit of set drawings and blueprints from 3Foot6 Ltd’s art department, where the cart was designed and built for the trilogy. The Wētā Workshop crew sought to craft Gandalf and Frodo in faithful detail – with a few surprises to reward keen-eyed collectors. Includes exclusive art print featuring concept art by John Howe.Premium wooden packaging, which can be used as a display plinth.Based on original 3foot6 Art Department drawings and blueprints.For so simple a trick it was remarkably effective, but the true wizardry was the director’s cleverness in constantly switching techniques so that the audience was kept guessing and eventually simply accepted the Hobbits’ diminutive size as given.įEATURES OF THE MASTERS COLLECTION: GANDALF & FRODO For scenes shot in the cart, Elijah sat in a special seat that was cantilevered out away from Sir Ian McKellen’s Gandalf, opposite the camera, so that as the cart travelled along and we shot past the Wizard the seat upon which both sat appeared to be one continuous plank. In wide shots that showed the entire cart, Frodo was played by Kiran Shah, a veteran actor and stunt man who, at around 4 feet in height, as a perfectly proportioned double for Elijah Wood. ![]() One of the best examples of in camera Forced Perspective to be used early in the films was in the scene in which Frodo rides with Gandalf in his cart toward Bag End. ![]() This technique was not new, but what was revolutionary was the marrying of it with motion control camera technology which would permit the camera to actually move through a shot and have the actors and practical set elements shift relative positions to reserve the illusion! That was something else, and we all marvelled to see it when the amazing team lead by Brian Van’t Hul demonstrated their innovations to us during the shoot. In this way 5’7” Elijah Wood and 5’10” Sir Ian McKellen might sit at a table together, but by virtue of Elijah being further away, his Hobbit Frodo Baggins seemed to be a petite 4’2”, or thereabouts. Something or someone positioned closer to camera appears to be larger than something further away, and eyelines can be cheated so that characters positioned far apart can seem to be looking into each other’s faces in the same plane, when in fact they aren’t. We would hire little people, but we would also be digitally shrinking characters, using clever in-camera tricks, making giant ‘big-rig’ stilt-suits, putting people on boxes or having them kneel in shot, and employing the age-old trickery of forced perspective but, as it turned out, in some ways that no one had ever done before…įorced perspective is what we call it when objects in different planes are cheated to appear adjacent to one another from the point of view of the camera. Not wanting to be limited to only casting such roles from a small pool of little people actors, Director Peter Jackson had told us that he wanted to use every trick in the book and a bunch of new ones that we hadn’t yet thought of in order to pull off the illusion that half of our main cast were a totally different size to the actors playing them. One of the biggest practical challenges to making The Lord of the Rings was posed by the fact that Hobbits and Dwarves are so much shorter than humans and Elves. ![]()
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