How Lord of the Rings' Gollum Changed CGI Forever

Weta Digital Effect Supervisor Eric Saindon looks back on the process of creating a new breed of CG character with Andy Serkis’s groundbreaking mo-cap performance in Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King.

Trivia: this would have been Gollum's original design in the movies. However, after casting Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson decided that Gollum should bear more physical resemblance to Serkis and changed the design.

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