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Weta Digital ‘Massive’ attack
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Design challenge: Azog the great white orc
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Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Gandalf (Ian McKellen)
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18 million simulated gold coins in Smaug’s lair
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Smaug (performed by Benedict Cumberbatch)
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Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) and Legolas (Orlando Bloom) take stock
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Rolling down New Zealand’s Pelorus River
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Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) takes a bow (and an arrow)
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Bilbo (Martin Freeman) emerges from Mirkwood
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Bard the Bowman’s children
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Crossing the bridge in Mirkwood
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Lake-town
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Legolas (Orlando Bloom) takes aim
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Legolas (Orlando Bloom) takes aim
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The Trolls (performed by Peter Hambleton, Mark Hadlow and William Kircher)
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Rivendell
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Rivendell
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Fili (Dean O’Gorman) and Thorin (Richard Armitage)
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Dwarves ‘fattened’ by Weta Workshop technique
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Gandalf (Ian McKellen) arrives at Bag End
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy is one of the largest and most sophisticated movie undertakings in the world. JRR Tolkein’s enduring masterpiece has been brought to life with ground-breaking technology, innovation and creativity in New Zealand.