Another stange gift of the elves or lost contacts? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

mark12_30 · 05-17-2003, 10:49 PM

It may be much more mundane than this... If you watch the extended DVD special stuff, they do a short session on (let's call it) digital magic. They would change entire scenes from daylight to evening, or morning to afternoon, or whatever, by altering the Red-Green-Blue ratios.

They showed an example of this, and it happened to be Elijah in the picture. As they darken the day-photographed scene into late evening, Elijah's eyes went from sky-blue to something rather resembling purple... (oops.) As the whole scene darkened, so did his eyes-- it was just that the rest of the scene looked natural, but his eyes didn't.

If the scene-enhancement turned Elijah's eyes purplish, might they have turned Legolas' eyes brownish?

Alas, my post at least does belong in the Movie forums...

[ May 18, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]

05-17-2003, 10:49 PM	#1
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	It may be much more mundane than this... If you watch the extended DVD special stuff, they do a short session on (let's call it) digital magic. They would change entire scenes from daylight to evening, or morning to afternoon, or whatever, by altering the Red-Green-Blue ratios. They showed an example of this, and it happened to be Elijah in the picture. As they darken the day-photographed scene into late evening, Elijah's eyes went from sky-blue to something rather resembling purple... (oops.) As the whole scene darkened, so did his eyes-- it was just that the rest of the scene looked natural, but his eyes didn't. If the scene-enhancement turned Elijah's eyes purplish, might they have turned Legolas' eyes brownish? Alas, my post at least does belong in the Movie forums... [ May 18, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ] __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.