Computer animation - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Time: 2002

Place: U.S. and New Zealand

Details: In 2002, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was the first feature film to use a real-time motion capture system, which allowed the actions of actor Andy Serkis to be fed directly into the 3D CGI model of Gollum as it was being performed.

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