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covers all the Kiwi locations of the third film, while Middle Earth Atlas allows the user to track the paths followed through Middle Earth in the course of the movie.
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I’m also pleased to add that there does not appear to have been any attempt to “upgrade” or “redo” the VFX in this film with newer, revised CG effects (in some kind of Star Wars: Special Edition effort). For this new Ultra HD remaster, Park Road Post (a New Zealand post facility owned by WingNut Films) went back and scanned the original camera negative in 4K, then upsampled the VFX shots that were finished digitally (in 2K resolution) to create a brand new 4K Digital Intermediate at the proper 2. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we’ll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. Those exhibit a more noticeable loss of fine detail, and have a slightly more digitally-processed look as well.
Shadows are deep and detailed, with inky blacks, while the highlights have a genuinely bright sheen—apparent on things like swords, armor, the One Ring, and Arwen’s Evenstar pendant.
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Aragorn falls off a cliff and has a psychic conversation with his girlfriend, Faramir whiffles back and forth about the Ring, and it never quite matters. For separate evaluations of each film's new Dolby Atmos audio mix, please see their individual listings. In the “Visualizing the Story” section there’s “Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images” (14 min. Next up is the section Filming Middle Earth, which has two sections: Warriors of the Third Age (21 min. As for converting existing films into 3D, thats as bad as colourising or panning and scanning and should be rejected by film fans.
The fact that the material has been repurposed makes it no less fascinating or necessary to a complete understanding of the films. we get a look at how the locations were found (sometimes by just flying a helicopter around New Zealand), and how much detail and work went into the smallest details of the costuming, even when outfits were being mass-produced. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s so much better looking than you’ve ever seen it before, that it’s a truly thrilling visual experience. offers an in-depth look at the New Zealand's team's work on the special effects, and on the design of the main villains, including the added Mouth of Sauron.