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Written by Harley 🐝🌿 on 2024-09-02 at 23:41

for the past few evenings, I've been watching the 10+ hour Hobbit trilogy BTS reels

I learned that the entire foundry/Smaug fight was added in two months as the decision to change from two to three movies was made, with the entire cast and crew were recalled for pickups

the final edit was locked two weeks before the premiere, and an agonising deal is made out of how the dubbing mixers had to work with unfinished footage, delivering the last reel of the film in a marathon 24 hour session

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Written by Harley 🐝🌿 on 2024-09-02 at 23:47

this is painted as an unbelievable, insurmountable task and a mammoth feat of human effort... but it's like... you did one all-nighter to deliver the film? okay?

meanwhile the fact that the edit for the entire fight sequence was only locked two weeks before means that reams of artists were finishing these shots, including final animation, lighting, simulating, compositing and rendering twenty minutes of pretty incredible visual work, which apparently does not merit a single mention

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