An Unexpected Journey: WETA Digital Effects

Past the jump you'll find three incredibly interesting (and informative videos) about the techniques that WETA used to create the Great Goblin, Azog and Gollum. I was particularly interested to learn that switching Azog to an all-digital character was a very late-in-the-process move. Enjoy!

New Hobbit Character Posters!

comicbookmovie.com posted 14 character posters . . . featuring quite a few that we hadn't seen before. Gotta admit, much to my surprise, the posters of Bombur and Bifur are my favorite. The guy with the axe in his head is definitely growing on me. Jump past the break to see the rest!

New Empire Hobbit Article + 5 New Covers

Thanks to DarkJackal for the heads up that Empire Magazine will be releasing an issue dedicated to the Hobbit, and to celebrate the release their magazine will feature five different 3D covers, including this nice one of our friend Gollum. Jump past the break to see the other four covers, featuring Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin and Galadriel. Images courtesy of primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk.

3D Hobbit Posters!

Hot off the press and straight from theonering.net, comes a slew of movie posters from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! The posters (and a whole lot of other images) are being updated on their live Comic-Con feed. Apparently the posters are in "reticulated 3D", but naturally that doesn't translate into these photos (mores the pity).

Gandalf (in my humble opinion) looks awesome; and, quite frankly, it's really nice to see the old wizard in his Grey "form" which is a whole lot cooler than his White "form".

Read on past the break to see the rest of the posters:

EW Hobbit Scroll

EW has just posted a new scrolling image of several scenes from the Hobbit! The scenes can be magnified to show more detail . . . and the great thing is, the image shows a ton of new material from the upcoming movie!

I've stitched the scenes together into a complete image, but it's not the highest resolution:

Enjoy!