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Gollum was voiced and performed by Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's live-action version of The Lord of the Rings, using motion capture. [36] In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gollum is a CGI character voiced and performed by the actor Andy Serkis. He is smaller than Frodo or Sam, but has considerable strength and agility.
Gollum's CG model was redesigned using a subdivision surface model instead of the NURBS model for Fellowship (a similar rebuild was done for the digital doubles of the lead actors) to better resemble Serkis. This allowed the filmmakers to create a shot where Serkis, made-up to resemble Gollum, is believably replaced with the CG Gollum.
Originally, Gollum was set to be solely a CGI character, but Jackson was so impressed by Serkis' audition tape that they used him on set as well. Gollum's CGI model was also redesigned in 2001 when Serkis was cast as Sméagol, Gollum's former self, so as to give the impression that Andy Serkis as Sméagol transforms into the CGI Gollum.
As The Lord of the Rings’s scraggy jewellery obsessive Gollum, he redrew the limits of what CGI characters could do; as Planet of the Apes’ indomitable primate Caesar, he redrew them again ...
Warner Bros. will release the first of its new batch of “The Lord of the Rings” films in 2026, which will focus on Andy Serkis’s Gollum. Original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy ...
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Bay Leaf Raitt [1] is an American Artist, 3D Graphic Novelist, Animator and Video Game Devoper. He was the Creature Facial Lead for Gollum on the Lord of the Rings movie Trilogy and Worked at Valve Software for 9 years before Founding the Spiraloid Workshop Company and Joining Unity3d.
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