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  1. Just build your own online... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Breaking the Squid Barrier

    http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid/interactive

  2. Re:Discovery Channel has had a few shows on this by Opyros · · Score: 1 · on Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid

    Most recent was one about another kind of giant squid that's even bigger and was caught in a net accidentally. The fishing trawler was smart enough to quickly freeze it. In the show, they were able to thaw it carefully and do a dissection. Apparently one of the problems with scientists working with these is that thy decompose extremely rapidly.

    You mean the Colossal Squid. The team that dissected it has a blog about it here.

  3. Re:Giant? by Smivs · · Score: 1 · on Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow

    Te Papa museum in New Zealand recently did a live webcast of a Collosal Squid dissection. Details and pics can be found at
    their blog

  4. Re:In his spare time.. by Paradigm+Lost · · Score: 2, Informative · on Andy "Gollum" Serkis Speaks

    Your Museum link is broken. It should be here. Very cool exhibition, but it finishes at the end of the month. Apparently, some of the items will then be used for RotK reshoots, and then the exhibition will tour overseas for a couple of years.

    Funny thing is that it costs as much to see the exhibition as the movie.

  5. Re:In his spare time.. by donnz · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Andy "Gollum" Serkis Speaks

    As an immigrant I can definately agree that would NZ benefit from more of us! Seeing the xenophiobic discussion in /. during the recent H1-B story made me think we were not alone with stupid immigration laws and attitudes. I won't even go close to that troll from Australia...

    On topic, there has been a great LOTR exhipition in Wellington at Te Papa (the Natinal Museum). Lots of vidoe clips, that I guess will come out on DVD, explaining how things were done, along with costumes and props. The best video was the one showing a clip of Gollum from the film against Sarkis. They took the entire movement and facial expressions from him. He was shot three times over, at least for each scene. Once with the other actors (that's him wrestling with Sam), once doing all the physical movements so that they could animate Gollum accurately and once doing the voice overs and facial expressions.

    I wish we'd designed the web site!
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  6. Re:Best character, period by donnz · · Score: 1 · on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination

    There is a good LOTR exhibition on in Wellington at Te Papa (the Natinal Museum). Lots of vidoe clips, that I guess will come out on DVD, explaining how things were done, along with costumes and props. The best video was the one showing a clip of Gollum from the film against Sarkis. They took the entire movement and facial expressions from him. He was shot three times over, at least for each scene. Once with the other actors (that's him wrestling with Sam), once doing all the physical movements so that they could animate Gollum accurately and once doing the voice overs and facial expressions.

    I wish we'd designed the web site!

    Fantastic stuff, only thing is, he must be well over 6 foot, not what you imagine Gollum to be!

    (Whilst you are there you can also check out the Harley exhibition...)

  7. Re:Too bad for Gollum by ledgeerama · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more)

    Having gone to see the Lord of the Rings exhibit in New Zealand (apparently heading overseas once it is finished here) the single most impressive thing was seeing video of Andy Serkis saying gollums lines side by side with video of the animated Gollum. Gollum's facial movements are an (almost) exact copy of Andy Serkis', it showed another reason why gollum was so impressive in the films. The rest of the exhibit was pretty cool as well :)