‘Laketown – Entering the World of Men’ Featurette

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April 8, 2014 at 7:53 pm by Aragorn the Elfstone  - 

Warner Brothers UK has posted a short new featurette on YouTube showcasing Laketown and Bard. Curiously, while the video appears to be meant as an advertisement for the new Blu-ray/DVD release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the video itself is not present in any of the bonus features on the set.

The same is the case for the previously posted video “Beorn the Shapeshifter“. The Blu-ray/DVD releases do, however, feature an all new 40 minute documentary titled “Peter Jackson Invites You to the Set”.

Posted in Blu-Ray, DVDs, Hobbit Movie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Luke Evans, Merchandise, MGM, Miscellaneous, New Line Cinema, Peter Jackson, Production, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Warner Bros. on April 8, 2014 by Aragorn the Elfstone Source: YouTube

Watch Orlando Bloom rehearse a Lake-town fight scene in Bard’s house

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April 3, 2014 at 8:18 am by Demosthenes  - 

Click below to watch Orlando Bloom as Legolas show off his knife skills in exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from Desolation of Smaug.

At the end he says to Jackson: “We should have shot it, right?”

The clip is taken from the DVD/Blu-ray release of the theatrical edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which is set to debut on April 7.

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See how WETA brought Lake-town to life for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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April 3, 2014 at 9:51 am by Demosthenes  - 

The little behind-the-scenes clip of Orlando playing with his knives was pretty cool, but this is just a whole ‘nother level of “wow”. Thanks to Ringer Smaug the Stupendous for the heads-up!

Click below (run, do not walk!) and see exactly how Weta created Lake-town using a variety of CGI and VFX techniques.

To create the city, our models department built 50 unique buildings, eight unique bridges and six towers, all of which were dressed and scaled differently in order to provide the vast amounts of variance required to populate the 200,000 square metres of ground with up to 1,500 buildings visible in some of the shots.

Over two million planks of wood, more than five million roof tiles and 1,749 walkways were created to bring Lake-town to life.

Posted in Headlines, Hobbit Movie, Locations Sets, Production, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, WETA Digital, WETA Workshop on April 3, 2014 by Demosthenes

Behind the Scenes of the Creation of Laketown

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Weta Digital has posted a new behind the scenes video for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The video covers the creation of Lakedown from concept to its pure CGI creation. The home video release of the movie is next Tuesday.