LORD OF RINGS LEGOLAS FULL
To have a digital character that big in the frame, he’s pretty much full frame. We had done little background figures and our massive armies in the battles, but they were already quite small in frame. It was a technology that we were working up. In the case of Legolas getting on the horse, the team at Weta Digital had a more difficult job ahead of them: a handoff from the live-action footage of Legolas to a completely new CGI version of the character.Īitken told Polygon, “In terms of Weta Digital’s history, I think it was probably our first big digital double shot. But during the production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the company was still experimenting with this tech, as with a brief shot of digital miniatures of the Fellowship crossing the Bridge of Khazad-dûm in The Fellowship of the Ring. Weta Digital’s digital double work is commonplace nowadays, cropping up in movies like Furious 7, Gemini Man, and even the climatic sequence of Avengers: Endgame. That’s when they decided to use a digital double.ġ3 Frodos changed action figures forever Everybody loves the least definitive versions of the Lord of the Rings movies What Peter Jackson’s original two-movie LOTR almost looked likeĪ digital double is a virtual recreation of a live-action character, allowing filmmakers to fill in the gaps in production and innovate where the use of stunt doubles would be dangerous. In the editing room, Jackson and company discovered the need to complete that sequence. The filmmakers had footage of the Rohirrim reaching Legolas, with Bloom hopping into the air with one arm raised.
LORD OF RINGS LEGOLAS CRACKED
After falling off of a horse earlier in the day, Bloom had cracked a rib, and was unable to performed the stunt as planned. All three Lord of the Rings movies were shot simultaneously, and on that scale, accidents occur. Aitken, still a visual effects supervisor at Weta Digital today, spoke to Polygon to provide more details into how that scene was made.Īs is made clear in the DVD featurette, digitally putting Legolas on a horse wasn’t in the original plan. In it, actor Orlando Bloom, director Peter Jackson, and Weta Digital’s Matt Aitken, Joe Letteri, and Jim Rygiel discuss the scene only briefly. The Extended Edition of The Two Towers reveals the genesis of this particular shot in its half-hour “Weta Digital” segment.
LORD OF RINGS LEGOLAS HOW TO
How to put Legolas on a horse, with magic Image: New Line Cinema Surely, a scientist and the folks at Weta Digital had answers.
But why on Middle-earth was it necessary to have him get on a horse that way? And is there any chance that it’s a physically possible thing to do, by man or elf? And it’s a magnificent feat of visual effects work from Weta Digital.
It’s a spectacular stunt, showcasing the elf’s agility and strength. Legolas turns, grabs his galloping steed by the breast collar, and then he swings in front of the horse, rotates in the air, and lands in the saddle in front of Gimli. In the warg attack sequence of The Two Towers, Legolas has gone ahead to observe the oncoming foe, and as the Rohirrim catch up to him he senses Gimli approaching on horseback. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. 2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story.
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