The most exciting thing about this December ’s Modern Hobbit film is the coming into court of Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug , the frightening flying lizard . And these behind - the - scenes picture of Cumberbatch doing motion - capture show just how much he put into the role .
These photos of Cumberbatch doing minute - chapiter were posted on Flickr by userTolkienerd . tick off out more at the liaison , but some of our favorites are below .
Inan interview a few months ago , Cumberbatch talked about how Peter Jackson enquire him to play Smaug using full mo - cap :
He was n’t that in need of it but he said , ‘ do you want to do it ? ’ I said , ‘ Absolutely , I do . That ’s the great appeal , trying to convey this . He said , ‘ But ’ . I live , ‘ I have it off what you ’re blend to say : I ’m a biped mammalian , I ’m not a serpent with tiny claw or legs . I do n’t have a tail , I ca n’t breathe fire or fly , and the rest of the things that are n’t dragonlike about me . But I do think in my imaging I ’ve got something which might at least push the WETA animation into a focusing . ’ He went , ‘ Come down and act as . ’ So that was an amazing affair , I ’d never been so free . You feel like a tit when you take the air onto the stagecoach and there are dots all over your boldness and your body , but the motion - capture volumes break up up every motion and twist it into an avatar . A beautiful full circle .
[ FlickrviaFurious Fanboys ]
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