[JameRetief]

If the second movie (and third for that matter) follows suit and/or improves on the first, as all reports so far suggest, I think there will be a large number of Oscar nominations. The Gollum character, if it is to get an Oscar (or nomination), will have to get it from The Two Towers since he has a far more diminished screen time in ROTK.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Perhaps my movie-making knowledge is not up to snuff...but can either of you enlighten me as to what they mean by "erasing" the actor from the scenes or "painting him out" of the scene. Why, if they had him doing the facial motions and the body motions would he then be gone from the performance? Do they just mean removing his actual face, or do they mean they just used his movements as guides for the animation?

I don't get what they mean by this, exactly.