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 
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