Author: HobbitFriend

  • Video highlights, preciousssss….

    An interview at Tech TV with Andy Serkis on bringing Gollum to life–you can read the exerpt, or click to the right of the story at their site for the video highlight, which is in Windows MP format–give it a minute to load, it’s a great interview, 13 minutes long!

  • More filming for Gandalf

    At Ain’t It Cool News you can read some interesting quotes by Ian McKellen regarding ROTK.

  • Always know your source!

    There is no RotK trailer right now. Despite what you have heard, or read. Ain’t It Cool News has the whole truth.

  • More on Gollum’s technology, and the Oscars

    Excellent story at the New York Times–log in (just a name and a password, it’s free) and read how TTT is helping to change film making forever, and what the Academy thinks of those changes.

  • Hop on over!

    Too much sugar can be bad for you, but this is just too silly to pass up. Just in time for Easter (yes, it is next month, I know) there is Lord of the Peeps! Peeps, those marshmallow Easter candies with the weird colors and slightly bitter after-taste “act” out the scenes from The Fellowship…

  • We’re here to help food for thought

    Globe Technology presents a thought-provoking article We all know Andy Serkis didn’t receive an Oscar nomination for Gollum–is this because or in spite of the digital effects in The Two Towers? Will digital effects render actors obsolete, or will they instead enhance the performance? Read and decide for yourself, preciousssss….

  • Gandalf the Great

    Here is a very nice interview article at the on-line European Time magazine about Ian McKellen, who discusses The Hobbit, Shakespear, Gandalf, and what he is up to now.

  • They aren’t real?

    The Toronto-based computer software company Alias/Wavefront is at a mini-Oscar ceremony in Beverly Hills this weekend, and have received the Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, primarily for development of a software program called Maya–both Orthanc and Barad-Dur were generated using Maya. The lengthy but informative article is at The Toronto Star.

  • Seriously, it’s just one vote

    Here is an interview of Ken Annakin, who is a voting member of the Motion Picture Academy, at Pittsburgh Live. About half-way down are his comments on The Two Towers…

  • Sounds like an award? Suits me fine!

    Stuff has a great article on Hammond Peek, who is is part of the sound team nominated for an Oscar for The Two Towers.