Alpha 130 -The science behind special effects

Written by Louise Thomas

With today’s technology, imagination is the only limit to what can be created on a movie screen. And nowhere in the world is the imagination more unlimited than at New Zealand’s own WETA Workshop and WETA Digital.

Weta Workshop makes models, props and miniatures, whereas Weta Digital creates virtual characters and computer generated special effects. Audiences around the world were awestruck when the Lord of the Rings trilogy hit the big screen. Trees walked, massive armies of men and elves battled evil Orcs, and through it all marched an unlikely

fellowship of brave little hobbits, a tall wizard, brave men, an elf and a dwarf and of course the lurking Gollum(aka Smeagol).  The special effects were quite simply amazing, and creating them is not only an art but an exact science.

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