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.

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Return of the King is nearly 20 years old but the CGI is phenomenal for Gollum. Forgive the bad screenshot but how amazing in 4K. Films now don't have such amazing effects

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Griot Studios on X: Thanks to Andy Serkis' remarkable performance acting as Gollum and Weta Digital's effects team, Gollum became the first motion-captured Computer Generated character to interact directly with other actors. #

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Brother is arguing that the transformation from Sméagol to Gollum in RotK isn't CGI at the end of the scene. He says he doesn't see any change between the two but I