Jim Rygiel

Behind the scenes documentary of the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Peter Jackson, members of Weta, and film production personnel are interviewed, telling of the birth of a small company in 1993 (for the making of Heavenly Creatures), which would provide visual effects for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and its various tasks in rendering fictional, fantasy environments and entities. The process behind the making of the Watcher in the Water, the Cave-troll, the giant corridor of Dwarrowdelf, the Balrog and its fire effects, the water-horses of the Bruinen flood, and the Ringwraiths' true appearance are explained by effects specialists of Weta Digital and the American company Digital Domain.

Documentary that covers how the scenes of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were, after principal photography, altered to achieve the desired color and lighting effects for portraying Middle-earth.

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