the remarkable visual effects in the hobbit the battle of the five armies
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Though the movie wasn’t 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.
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.
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
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. Itwas created in New
Zealand
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.
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.
The fire simulation in turn drives the detailed building destruction with the rigid
body simulation.
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.
Source: www.wired.com
That was 2014! We wonder what Weta Digital has up their sleeve for 2015…..