Peter Jackson’s scientific contributions

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Lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
  • Conference Paper

July 2002

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Peter Jackson

Visualising JRR Tolkein's Middle-earth involved creating CG creatures, entirely digital environments, armies of tens of thousands of soldiers, each driven by his own artificial-life "brain" and simulated senses, as well as coming up with a bag of tricks to solve the problem of making fullsize actors appear at hobbit scale. The scope of the task ranged from vast battlefields where everything in frame was created with CGI to the smallest of things, a digital version of "The One Ring" itself.

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... In Pandora, where the plot of the film takes place, vegetation and objects related to the environments are presented with a high level of realism, and an extremely detailed depiction of space is made. Stating that digital visual effects have become realistic in a way that cannot be separated from real life over time, Prince stated that visual effects challenge realistic film production through the films Avatar, Inception (Nolan, 2010), Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993), Lord of the Rings (Jackson, 2001), Ratatouille (Bird & Pinkava, 2007). ...

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The Future of the Moving Image: Virtual Production Technology
Lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
  • Citing Conference Paper

  • July 2002

Peter Jackson