
But this role was the start of something huge for CGI in films. When just signing up for the role actor Andy Serkis was relatively in the dark with the entire motion-capture concept in fact most of the movie industry was. The only thing we can think of is just an odd slimey creature, and yet Peter Jackson and the WETA Digital team brought him to life as that slimey creature and then some. In book The Hobbit, he is described as thin with only six teeth that are sharpened into points. Tolkien, describes his looks as either dark, sallow, or bone-white. When reading The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit it’s hard to picture what Gollum looks like in real life. One CGI masterpiece that comes to mind is Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.
