gollum's real name in lord of the rings was sméagol.
gollum's real name in lord of the rings was sméagol.
gollum's real name in lord of the rings?
sméagol
weta began animating gollum in late 1998, using a generic human muscle system, to convince new line cinema they could achieve it. andy serkis played gollum by providing his voice and movements on set, as well as performing within the motion capture suit. his scenes were filmed twice, with and without him. originally gollum was set to solely be a cg character, but jackson was so impressed by andy serkis' audition tape that they used him on set as well. a team led by randy cook performed the animation using both motion capture data and manual recreation of serkis' facial reference. gollum's cg model was also redesigned during 2001, now using a subdivision surface model instead of the nurbs model for "fellowship" (a similar rebuild was also done for the digital doubles of the lead actors), when serkis was cast as sméagol, gollum's form before he is cursed by the one ring, so as to give the impression that andy serkis as sméagol transforms into the cg gollum. the original model can still be glimpsed briefly in the first film. over christmas 2001, the crew proceeded to reanimate all the previous shots accordingly within two months. another problem was that the crew realized that the cast performed better in the versions of the film with serkis. in the end, the cg gollum was often animated on top of these scenes and serkis would be painted out. due to gollum's not being human, shots such as him crawling down a sheer cliff were shot with no live reference. serkis also did motion-capture for the character which would drive the body of the model, whilst animators did all fingers and facial animation. gino acevedo supervised realistic skin tones, which for the first time used subsurface scattering shader, taking four hours per frame to render. render time refers to the amount of time it took the computer to process the image into a usable format; it does not include the amount of time it took the texture artists to "draw" the frame. the hair dynamics of cg gollum in "the two towers" were generated using maya cloth. because of its technical limitations, weta subsequently moved to the syflex system for "the return of the king".
production of the lord of the rings film series
bilbo baggins stumbled upon gollum's lair, having found the ring in the network of goblin tunnels leading down to the lake. at his wits' end in the dark, bilbo agreed to a riddle game with gollum on the chance of being shown the way out of the mountains. in the first edition of "the hobbit", gollum's size is not stated. only in the revised version is it specified that he is small and is actually an unnaturally long-lived hobbit. originally, he was also characterized as being less bound to the ring than in later versions; he offered to give the ring to bilbo if he lost the riddle game, and he showed bilbo the way out of the mountains after losing. to fit the concept of the ruling ring that emerged during the writing of "the lord of the rings", tolkien revised later editions of "the hobbit": the version of the story given in the first edition became the lie that bilbo made up to justify his possession of the ring to the dwarves and gandalf. in the new version, gollum pretended that he would show bilbo the way out if he lost the riddle-game, but he actually planned to use the ring to kill and eat the hobbit. discovering the ring missing, he suddenly realized the answer to bilbo's last riddle – "what have i got in my pocket?" – and flew into a rage. bilbo inadvertently discovered the ring's power of invisibility as he fled, allowing him to follow gollum undetected to a back entrance of the caves. gollum was convinced that bilbo knew the way out all along, and hoped to intercept him near the entrance, lest the goblins apprehend bilbo and find the ring. bilbo at first thought to kill gollum in order to escape, but was overcome with pity, and so merely leaped over him. as bilbo escaped, gollum cried out, "thief, thief, thief! baggins! we hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!"
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