Hitchcock - Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
As I have already blogged about Hitchcock, I'll concentrate on The Hobbit and Les Misérables here.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
With 4 tonnes of silicone to just cast the faces of 13 dwarves, Richars Taylor head of special effects house WETA Workshop had a lot of work to do.
“We had to give them prosthetic hands to wear, we had to give them much bigger feet, and we had to give them much wider heads. That’s why we had to create these ears that stuck out, and the wigs created the illusion that their heads were bigger than they were,” explained director Peter Jackson.
"Because of the higher resolution from Jackson’s 48 frames per second (twice the visual information of the industry’s standard 24 frames per second) and the 3-D, prosthetics supervisor Tami Lane’s team used the same compressable material used on the underside of the space shuttle to smash the edge of the prosthetics down to a hundredth of a micron to blend it with the skin. Anything thicker and the audience might notice." Taken from NY Daily News.
The standard of prosthetics, make-up and hair has dramatically changed this year. From using yak hair for wigs and beards to smashing prosthetics with something only NASA should use, the new technological developments begs the question "What will be next?"
Les Misérables
This video pretty much says it all about Les Misérables. Amazing tallent and dedication from all the cast and make-up team! I cannot wait to see this and probably cry my heart out.
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