In our Media Communications class the other day, we watched the director's commentary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Jackson (director), Fran Walsh (producer), and Phillipa Boyens (writer) talked about how they did all the special effects for the film. They talked about using a tall person for the scenes of Gandalf's back with the hobbits, and a short person with the scenes of the Hobbits with regular sized people. They also told us about another technique they used called Forced Perspective. They had two people in the same room, but far away from each other. The stuff on one side of the room was bigger than the stuff on the other end. Then they would take the two scenes, and squish them together to make it seem like the two actors are next to each other. I personally thought that was cool.
The picture is of Musta-Krakish, the lake troll from Metalocalypse.
