Gollum is an excellent example of 3d graphical technology. Without CG, Gollum, one of the most important characters in The Lord of the Rings, would have been really lame. I recently re-watched the special features on the Lord of the Rings DVDs and the stuff about how they made Gollum was so cool. They shot two plates, one of the actors performing the scene with the actor who played Gollum in a weird jumpsuit, and one without the Gollum actor. They later used motion capture technology to capture the Gollum actor's performance and put it in the final version of the film. This was one of the first CG characters in a movie that actually had a major role. They did such a good job with the CG for him, especially for the time. A lot of earlier movies that tried to use CG along with live action just looked bad. With Gollum, sometimes its hard to tell he's even CG. And the technology is getting even better. I can't wait to see the new Avatar movie!
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