How'd they make the hobbits and the dwarf shorter? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

mollecon · 01-22-2003, 09:36 PM

The ones where one actor is closer to the camera than the other (to make them appear different in size) is as far as I remember called false perspective - PJ's crew developed this old technique further during the shooting of LotR so that they could use it with a moving camera - before it could only work with a fixed one... As PJ says on the Ext DVD, they used any technique that seemed prober/effective in the particular shot.

01-22-2003, 09:36 PM	#5
mollecon Wight Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 188	The ones where one actor is closer to the camera than the other (to make them appear different in size) is as far as I remember called false perspective - PJ's crew developed this old technique further during the shooting of LotR so that they could use it with a moving camera - before it could only work with a fixed one... As PJ says on the Ext DVD, they used any technique that seemed prober/effective in the particular shot.