Visualizing the Story is a six-part documentary in the Extended Edition appendices (disc 3, "From Book to Vision") to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Directed by Michael Pellerin, this section covers the early storyboard, pre-visualization, and screening processes in the production. It is followed by "Designing and Building Middle-earth".
Christian Rivers, a Weta Workshop art director in the production team, drew most of the storyboards of the plot of the movie. After scene design was finalized, Peter Jackson used toy-sized miniatures of setting and characters, to review and decide on camera movements for each scene. The computer graphics program PreViz was then used to visualize the scenes with basic 3D models.
Personnel featured[]
- Peter Jackson - director
- Grant Major - production designer
- Christian Rivers - VFX director
- Alex Funke - director of miniatures photography
- Barrie Osborne - producer
- Rick Porras - co-producer
- Elijah Wood - actor of Frodo
- Brian Van't Hul - VFX cinematographer
- Marion Davey - VFX art department coordinator
- Randall William Cook - animation designer & supervisor
Part One: From Book to Vision • Part Two: From Vision to Reality
Part Three: The Journey Continues • Part Four: The Battle for Middle-earth Begins
Part Five: The War of the Ring • Part Six: The Passing of an Age