20th March 2003, 1:33 AM
I love both the Ewoks and the Gungans.
And yup, you're right about LotR. Star Wars is about 90% CGI (they did use some miniatures) while each LotR is about 40% CGI. It's unfortunate that TTT is going to win the academy award for best visual effects when it simply doesn't deserve it (AotC should win it, and the next best thing after that is Minority Report), but that's just the way the Oscars work.
Peter Jackson also got help from George Lucas before he started work on Rings because he didn't know anything about pre-visualization for movies, so Lucas helped him with that and showed him how ILM does everything. WETA (the f/x company for Rings) was also formed by ex-ILMers, in case anyone wanted to know.
And yup, you're right about LotR. Star Wars is about 90% CGI (they did use some miniatures) while each LotR is about 40% CGI. It's unfortunate that TTT is going to win the academy award for best visual effects when it simply doesn't deserve it (AotC should win it, and the next best thing after that is Minority Report), but that's just the way the Oscars work.
Peter Jackson also got help from George Lucas before he started work on Rings because he didn't know anything about pre-visualization for movies, so Lucas helped him with that and showed him how ILM does everything. WETA (the f/x company for Rings) was also formed by ex-ILMers, in case anyone wanted to know.