The Hobbit Movies Special Effects
Written by ady on August 19, 2008 – 10:52 am -
Guillermo Del Toro says he plans to keep to traditional special effects such as model making and real world workshop effects once work gets underway on The Hobbit movie.
“You have to be very careful not to rely on a single tool – and this is another thing that I share a passion for with Peter Jackson. We both are huge fans of ‘old-world’ techniques like maquettes, models, miniatures, paintings – and in the case of The Hobbit, I do intend to continue this trend and bring much more animatronics into the mix,” Del Toro told IGN.
“We need to keep that art form alive, because it brings a textural power to the movie that ultimately affects the content. The creatures somehow seem more tactile and more tangible than CG.”
IGN were obviously keen to find out what he had planned for Gollum following the above statement but he was happy to confirm Gollum would be back in glorious CG as he was in The lord Of The Rings.
“I think that it worked perfectly on the Lord of the Rings trilogy and if it ain’t broke, why fix it?”
Exactly, well said that man! I could just imagine the uproar if we didn’t get the same Gollum. It’s not like they could argue the guy who does the computer graphics is too old for the part now 
Tags: gollum, Guillermo Del Toro, Hobbit Movies
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August 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I think they should update, or de update gollums look. I mean it has been a hundred years or so in between the Hobbit and the trilogy. He should have A more hunched back and such.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I think Bilbo is around 50, possibly 60 in the book so that would mean that it’s about 50-60 years between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. But yeah, I agree, would be cool if gollum looked slightly “younger”
August 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I think that this is an oportunity to make a darker Gollum. Del Toro said than he want to be faithful to the books, not only to the LOTR films. In the books he`s almost black
August 27th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Just remember though that “the ring had brought to Gollum (not Smeagol) unnatural long life.” This is to say that Gollum as we know him 76+ years later in LOTR would NOT be much different looking. He would still be that “gangly creature” mentioned in the Hobbit, which - again- is to say that 76yrs is no comparison to the rest of his 587year life span due to the power of the ring. Remember that the ring was lost for 2 and a half thousand years, and came to Gollum who had it for approx. another 510yrs before losing it to Bilbo! So reletively speaking, to ask for Gollum to be made to look younger would be like asking a 90 yr old man to be made to look like he’s 88(or so). There MAY be a slight change, but I can hardly believe that there would be much especially at 587 yrs old!