• 9point6@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Actually funnily enough the CGI is one of the biggest areas they innovated in, in addition to the great practical effects

      Look up Peter Jackson’s Weta workshop & digital, a lot of the stuff that’s commonplace in cinema today has its origins there for the LotR films