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Post #362229

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Akwat Kbrana
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The Puppets or cgi?
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29-May-2009, 10:56 AM

Agreed. Some of the horde shots were CG, but usually real stuntmen were used.

Moreover, Jackson's "CG only when necessary" philosophy extended even to locations-shots, buildings, etc. As much as possible, he used models and location shooting rather than just using a quick-fix CGI "band-aid." He also used animatronics for as many creatures as he could (Treebeard, "giants" from the Hobbits' perspective in the Prancing Pony, etc.) In addition to adding a sense of weight and realism to the final film, this approach also gave the actors something to interact with, rather than just putting them in front of a greenscreen with a suspended golf-ball, and shouting, "Faster, more intense!"