The remarkable visual effects in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The remarkable visual effects in the hobbit the battle of the five armies
Aug 12, 2015
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- 1. The remarkable visual effects in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- 2. Though the movie wasnt nominated for Oscars, it contains some of the most stunning visual effects the world has seen in the 2014. Below is a list of some of the effects in the movie that we believe deserves a standing ovation and a mention of the technology that went into the creation of those effects.
- 3. Massive and impressive environments
- 4. Weta Digital used the same crowd simulation technology, Massive, used in LOTR to create the stunning battle that marks the ending of The Hobbit trilogy.
- 5. The army manager production tool was introduced in the production of this movie. It allowed for the visualization of the battle scenes beforehand guiding the filming of the scenes. This bridged the gap in real time between the previous and final shots
- 6. The technology rightly named as Massive, a animation and post production tool, was then used to obtain the final shots of the visualized battle scenes. It was created in New Zealand
- 7. This film also saw the use of the Manuka renderer previously used in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. It was used in the creation of the fluid destruction sequences and the digital character work that Weta Digital is best known for.
- 8. The most stunning of the sequences in the movie however was the lake town attack by Smaug that was created in a closed volume created specifically for this sequence. The following slides explain the correlation and the complicated calculations that went into the creation of the sequence.
- 9. Smaugs wings drive the air simulations in the closed volume space created.
- 10. Airflow fluid simulations driven by the air simulations in turn drive the fire simulations.
- 11. The fire simulation in turn drives the detailed building destruction with the rigid body simulation.
- 12. The rigid body simulations of the building destruction interacts with the airflow simulation causing the smoke and steam to rise. This is seen around the wings of the dragon.
- 13. All this happens while Smaug is breathing fire.
- 14. Source: www.wired.com That was 2014! We wonder what Weta Digital has up their sleeve for 2015..
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