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COMIC CON SD 2014| air New Zealand – the hobbit panel…?

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As during this year’s Comic con San Diego 26th July 2014, so was the cast of The Battle of Five Armies- “The Hobbit trilogy”, directed by Sir Peter Jackson whom directed the “Lord of the Rings Trilogy” did a “The Hobbit panel as viewed” among with the other key actresses and actors of the film… the moderator of the panel was Stephen Colbert… With this in mind “Air New Zealand” Provide carrier support for Weta Workshop, Wingnut Films, and their Massive promotional stall display during at the Comic Con SD, in which featuring the life size head animatronics of the Dragon Smaug voice by Benedict Cumberbatch..

During that time it was “Air New Zealand” first for their Social Media team to help to promote New Zealand tourism industry and its highlights in comic con promoting the Hobbit…

BEHIND THE SCENCES | the hobbit- the desolation of Smaug

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Here we have an interesting composting visual effects break down on the main leading antagonist is Smaug… in the Hobbit-in desolation of Smaug…also the dragon voice by the BBC Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch…  in this seen we have  composition of green screen to computer visually generated effects leading to the world of Tolkien.. in between the featured scenes of the Barrel Run as ban of Hobbits escape from the underground halls of the ElvenKing,  the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor in the great halls of the Forge also Monaco size treasure Halls..  During the process of Production it has taken almost 2000 visual effects shots for the enormous complexities of environments, digital clones of the actors, cast and creatures..

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THE HOBBIT | air new zealand – Smaug

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As they did for Lord of the Rings, Air new Zealand  did something clever just like Japanese carriers did something for Pokemon and anime livery across there fleet of airlines.. as we see here is a time-lapse, starting from a completely blank canvas on a Boeing 777- 300 series presumably at Auckland international Airport maintenance Hanger.  Then something magical comes… The semblances of the dragon Smaug livery… delicacy jigsaw together… having him soaring through the air… Like if Smaug is readying himself to do some serious graceful destruction… through the clouds or where ever travels…..

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